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It amazes me that we had a decentralized, independently run series of chat networks in IRC. It wasn't even weird or hackerey, just how you talked to people on the internet sometimes. Mostly I talked to people about degen shit and doing drugs, not, like, kernel maintenance.

Now Slack/Discord are standard ish but whenever there's an outage I remember IRC netsplits and how if a server went down you'd still be able to talk to half of everyone until the network healed.