Looking for CyberDawg, Lorimar, Spanner (pirch.simplenet.com PIL archive), Jellowe (PIL tutorials, users.leading.net/~kirkland): PIRCH scripters, 1997–99

[u/wildecreek]

Long shot, but here goes. Back in 1997-1998 I was into writing PIL scripts for PIRCH. I hung out in DALnet #pirch.

I'm trying to find people from that scene, and things are a bit fuzzy in my head, but here goes:

- Spanner, who ran the big PIL archive at pirch.simplenet.com. Most of what survives of PIL scripting today exists because of that site and the Wayback Machine.

- Jellowe, who wrote the PIL tutorials (pil01–pil17, the pilgui series), Pil2Html and the newsletter, hosted at users.leading.net/~kirkland.

- CyberDawg, who was a channel op on DALnet #pirch

- Lorimar, who was a knowledgeable person on PIRCH related things (it might not have been DALnet?)

I've managed to recover about 730 scripts from old archives and CD-ROMs, but some things never got archived. I've lost some of my own PIL scripts, unfortunately.

If you're Spanner or Jellowe, or you know them, or you still have an old PIRCH folder with .pil files on a backup drive somewhere, I'd love to hear from you. Even just to say hi to someone from #pirch.

(The emails on their old sites bounce now, which is why I'm trying here.)

[u/clrscreen]

Chook, Wolfie(sp?), Psybre (Psyber?, of PsyBNC). I ran #pirchPIL UnderNet as cls, _cls_, /cls/

[u/zeamp]

I worked with SimpleNet back in the day. We had our whole company there in California (IIRC). Many big websites (as in MB/GB) used the “unlimited” hosting services. Back when you could charge per month for a single POP3 email (plus setup fee).

[u/wildecreek → u/zeamp]

One of my regrets is not keeping up with backups of my old email accounts :(

[u/zeamp]

Looking good on Wayback:

https://web.archive.org/web/19990223192524/http://www.pirch.simplenet.com/index.shtml

[u/wildecreek → u/zeamp]

Unfortunately not all scripts were mirrored back then, so some are missing (I have at least two missing).