I started using mIRC (an Internet relay chat program) back in '94 and
found IRC easy enough to use. I used it steadily for about 5 years.
Strangely enough, though, I haven't used IRC for several years now.

Mike
(whose first computer was an apple that came in a baggie back in '76)

Sudhir Desai wrote:
> IIRC, the web-based chat app was just a front for an IRC channel, but
> I could be wrong. The web frontend that I linked for wasteland.org is
> easy enough, if you have a current web browser (I had my mom try it,
> and she's as inept as they come). :)
>
> Sudhir
>
> On 8/30/07, Nunya Business <bulletheadx@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I met my wife on IRC, many many moons ago. No delay, that's actually pretty
>> funny. Probably things have changed but lag was the major feature of IRC
>> back in those days. : )
>> Didn't Vanagon.com have a straight-up web-based chat app once upon a time?
>> Something like that might be easier for the um.... 'old people' here than
>> getting used to IRC.
>> I sent Mike the Squirrel a chat invite thru Gmail to see how it worked but
>> the chucklehead ignored me. Yes I took it personally.
>>
>> Cya,
>> Robert
>>
>>
>> On 8/29/07, Sudhir Desai <sudhir.desai@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Basically, it is a different way of communication between list members.
>>> IRC is to our mailing list, as placing a conference call is to a mass
>>> mailing.
>>>
>>> A no-delay method of communication that can be used by anyone with a
>>> computer.
>>>
>>> Here is the IRC wikipedia entry:
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat
>>>
>>> I hope this clears up any confusion.
>>> Sudhir
>>>
>>> On 8/29/07, Anthony Egeln <regnsuzanne@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> Sudhir,
>>>>
>>>> What does this mean in old people language?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, Anthony
>>>> '89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sudhir Desai <sudhir.desai@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>>>  I was browsing the archive from the early `90's, and found mention of
>>>> a vanagon IRC channel.
>>>> Would anyone be interested in restarting one?
>>>>
>>>> If so, I would like to recommend the server irc.wasteland.org , channel
>>>> #type2
>>>> note: the channel already exists, and has people talking.
>>>>
>>>> The inhabitants of the channel currently, are 1 bus, and 2 vanagon.
>>>>
>>>> Sudhir
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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