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When was your first IRC experience?
Michael:
Mine was about a year ago when I started getting into fansubbed anime... I wanted to downloaded Shakugan no Shana and Fate/stay night episodes however since I hadn't yet figured out how to bypass all of my University's anti-BT measures I was told to use XDCC bots on IRC instead.
retrograde inversion:
I started out IRCing in various channels on EFnet around 1999. Not anime-related though. It was this sexy page (or a previous incarnation of it... heh) that first drew me to IRC. I remember reading a lot of docs on how to use IRC. Some of them concerned IRCing on UNIX with old clients like ircII or EPIC. So I wasn't quite sure what to expect when I first got on. :p (It took me a while to realize the phenomenon known as idling on IRC. When I got on nobody was talking. I was like, What the hell? Is this thing even working??? ...It didn't help either that EFnet had frequent netsplits...though it's much better now.) Early on, I mostly focused on calculator and math channels. I still idle on EFnet but don't really participate over there as much as I used to.
As far as anime and fansubs and stuff are concerned, I started hanging out in E-F's channel around January 2002, right after I got broadband Internet. I roamed around, idling in various channels and setting up an fserve. I also hanged out in A-E and for a short time A-Keep and other channels that were on ETG at the time. (I remember A-E distro back in 2002. A bustling place that was... while it lasted. :p) A friend told me about HnK as well. :3
I didn't really start idling in L-E until October 2003. It was around that time that I started helping out with Usenet posts here and there (this was when mikala was still actively posting). I now do most of the posting of L-E's new releases to Usenet. And... I've been around pretty much ever since.
PlasticYakuza:
The first time I used irc was back in 2000 and I didn't understand how to make it work at all. My mass amount of laziness prevented me from using it more than 5 minutes at a time. "I have to type everything? pffft". It was mostly just to join gaming channels. guild channels from The Realm, Diablo 1/2, and later RO and the private servers. Don't really do any online gaming anymore, but for some reason I am still here...
Sindobook:
In efnet 1999 and 2000 I was a member (in principle only) of a rather active digisub group. That's the first time I bothered with IRC. I knew people in college who got addicted to IRC and MUDs and ended up dropping out b'cos of it. So I was naturally very adverse to it.
kwfine:
Oh, I see!
But do you think it is safe to talk to someone through IRC?
The system listed me all my network detail including my IP and my ISP when I right clicked to check 'who is kwfine'.
Oh, my goodness! That scared me a lot!
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