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I am sure IRC was good for some people, but I can say for me personally it was a net negative and real life was so, so much better. I wish I never used IRC.

I also personally witnessed multiple friends who dropped out of college due to IRC addiction in the early 1990s.

I am curious if anyone else has a similar memory of IRC.

Most of the real life friends that I still have today I met on IRC.

can't ride a netsplit to takeover and +m a huge channel IRL

This made me really nostalgic about mIRC. I miss Dalnet. The colors of IRC. How fast and reliable it was. The rankings of members and trying to build credibility with the community to move up in the channel.

Fun times.

Related:

Why Real Life is better than IRC (2000)

https://everything2.com/node/e2node/Why%20Real%20Life%20is%2...

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46559266)

Missing "(2000)" in the title.

I don't get IRC - it seems to be antiquated unencrypted live group chats, with no usable clients. Group chats are useless for finding information and for communicating in between 10 ongoing conversations.

Web forums make sense and are searchable.