I found myself loving what this guy writes about IRC, and I think a lot of his words will go straight to the heart of specially the older nerds here on Lemmy.
Hope you enjoy.
Just love the 1995 website feeling :-)
Yeah me too, I’ve been missing this. Personal websites that aren’t corporate are so cool.
I’m working on a decentralized free hosting protocol (hosts your stuff, help others host theires. It’s all automatic, you just share some stuff and people share yours. All encrypted and so on), it’s working, would you be interested in checking it out?
So, like Geocities but, decentralized?
Not to undermine your project, but what’s the difference with it, and just quickly spinning up a LAMP?
For me IRC scores points on not having push notifications, rich text, custom emojis, embedded images/video, etc. It’s plain text communication — multiplayer notepad, if you will — and it’s great at what it does. I love that I don’t need anything but a terminal window for utilizing the full capabilities of IRC, and the lack of persistent chat history is a great counter to FOMO. (Yeah, you can stay online or have a bot that logs everything — the point is that most people don’t.)
I just asked about getting in to it in the current year if you have any tips: https://lemmy.world/post/2348478?scrollToComments=true
Bonus points for optimising IRC nostalgia post for rendering in Lynx.
