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0 pointsdigi_owl7y ago0 comments

IRC in particular was great for this, as it was rooms not P2P, and quite often one could find quite local rooms. ICQ and IM in general ruined that, IMO, as it was more invite based.

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StillBored7y ago

You forget that IRC has person to person messaging too. It was pretty easy to start a side conversation with people on IRC that wasn't public.

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0 pointsdigi_owl7y ago0 comments

IRC in particular was great for this, as it was rooms not P2P, and quite often one could find quite local rooms. ICQ and IM in general ruined that, IMO, as it was more invite based.

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StillBored7y ago

You forget that IRC has person to person messaging too. It was pretty easy to start a side conversation with people on IRC that wasn't public.

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