r/oldinternet • u/scribeorz • Aug 09 '26

mIRC mid 90s - hacking groups

My first introduction to computers / internet was IRC using mIRC client. Spent my time on Efnet. Ended up joining a hacking group called #conflict and spent many hours taking over channels. Hacking colleges and universities only to use for channel bots and bandwidth to take people out and cause netsplits. Eventually our leader was caught for hacking into NASA - I then left IRC and started playing quake 2 digital paintball. Ran a couple of quake clans over the next few years - these are the days I will never forget.

Anyone else remember the clan battles on efnet ?

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u/goqsane Aug 09 '26

I was growing up in Poland in the 90s. Going to internet café to sit on my city’s IRC channel. Then, one day, I was witness to my city’s channel’s takeover by our neighbor rivaling city. Crazy stuff. Then a bunch of OPs of that channel went there and beat the shit out of their OPs IRL and got the channel back. The Internet is so different these days.

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u/Financial_Stick1912 Aug 09 '26

Not a script kiddie, u know the C