EFnet IRC Network Forum

If I am remembering right, I was on EFnet about 1997. Things were tough back then, staying online with all the packeting along with channel takeovers was a major task but, 'man O man' those were diffently hard days. Looking back it was quite a eye opening and learning experience.

webdawg wrote:Ohh yeh? Well I knew god...

Haven't seen him since high school. How's he doing?

I don't remember exactly, but I used AOL 2.5 to dial-in and logon. Pretty sure I was using Windows 95.. so that would be mid 90s?

Started in '93, not on any network, but on a non networked ircd.
I was ~ 10/11/12ish.

Also, all this time I didn't register on this forum

mvz wrote:Also, all this time I didn't register on this forum

And it's been JUST FINE that way.. Thanks for ruining it!

ooo i am i am ~

I originally joined #ansi as "seven" in 1989.

really define "old school"?

my first experience with IRC was 1994, on the undernet. Then I was on DALnet for a little bit. mIRC 4.5 16-bit on windows 3.1 with AOL 2.5/3.0.

I discovered the mad world of warez, mp3z, information security tools, and learned some miRC script. Later I learned to use linux and unix and with it BitchX and psybnc.

Then from around 1998, me a friend and some allies from DALnet ran our own small irc network. actively for around 5 years between 1998 and 2003, then it continued sporadic usage until its slow demise around 2008. We ran our own customized IRCD and services that was a branch off of twilight. Our main highlight was our ircd got featured on source forge for a while.(services had more intelligent akill, spam prevention and defesnive capabilities) We had reasonably active small network with a handful of active channels.

We never ventured on to EFnet Back then unless you where looking for warez or mp3s, cause before IP/hostname hiding, people would just ping flood your little dial up connection to oblivion with hacked shells, early cable modems, or whatever else they had and you didn't.

edit: then I stopped using IRC for a while, and I guess I'm back cause I miss IRC

1994 old school. hi.

Circa 92, opered on a few servers, helped with hybrid a bit. Some may remember me as socfam, some may not.

First time in 1992, never got hooked tho so had a gap until 1994-2002. Got "Al Bundy'ed" with family and shit, so was gone till 2007-present..

Been around since the times when IRC clients were on AOL CD's. Been an IRC user daily since 1994.

Came to efnet from AOL abt 1990 so I've been around 25 yrs ... gawd I love this place. Opers and Admins do an outstanding job.
CometBaby

Found IRC at the tail end of 1994 and got hooked. Just never left, but became a 'lurker' instead of an active participant.

sometime around 1996

How many exams did you fail on your way to ASA or FSA? Does everybody fail at least a few exams? Or do a good amount make it through with no problems?