Mooky was one of the #Calgary on Undernet channel owners and you could find him there all the time. Luckily, I was contacted by “Mooky” and he provided some context and history. OPs sit in the channel and keep watch over it, kicking out spammers and trolls.ĭetails about this time are fuzzy, it was almost 20 years ago now. Legolas had complete control of the channel, so he essentially owned it. They can kick people out, ban them, and do other things like set the channel topic and settings. An OP (operator) is a moderator of the channel. A bot named ‘X’ would sit in your channel (#Calgary) and provide OP access when requested to certain users, and protect against people taking the channel over and banning everyone. What I mean by owned, on Undernet, was you could own one of the channels using the built-in channel services offered by the network. I’m not sure who existed before him, if anyone. The #Calgary channel at one point in time was owned by someone that went by ‘Legolas’, who apparently was a huge douche? (not my words). It’s probably not 100% accurate and is missing lots of info, but hopefully other people can fill in the gaps. It’s own group of people that got to know each other personally, both online and at meet ups and get togethers.īelow is a little bit of history I was able to throw together. If you are, share stories in the comments below! Each channel had it’s own. I personally only really used the #Calgary channel on Undernet, so I’m not too familiar with any drama or milestones from the EFnet or DALnet #Calgary channels. Each channel came with it’s own list of characters, heated arguments and of course, all sorts of stupid drama. The three #Calgary channels never really communicated with each other, though you could of course join all three channels if you wanted to. Each channel had it’s own ‘regulars’ that would join and chat and discuss all kinds of random things with each other. It’s possible there were other #Calgary channels on other networks but none I’m aware of. A chat room you can join and talk in with other people.Īt one point there existed a #Calgary channel on each of the EFnet, DALnet and Undernet networks. Note: my use of #Calgary is not to ‘hashtag’ the word like you’re familiar with, but in the IRC world that represents the name of a channel. EFnet was also one of the first IRC networks, which DALnet and Undernet split off from. I suppose it depends on who you talk to about IRC. EFnet was kind of the ‘wild wild west’ of IRC in my opinion. EFnet was one of the more popular IRC networks back in the day due to it’s lack of channel services (a bot that sits in the chatroom and protects it) and nickname services (you couldn’t register nicknames), and it was also around first. If you were someone that once upon a time used IRC in Calgary, you’ll be happy to know there is still an active #Calgary IRC channel! It’s on a network called EFnet. IRC may not be as popular as it once was, but there is still an active community of users today. You can read more about the history of IRC here and here. It has been used in times of crisis as well, like during the 1994 LA earthquakes, The Oklahoma bombing, and even September 11th. In 1991 IRC was used to share communications during a coup attempt in the Soviet Union, and again in 1993 during the standoff between Russian President Boris Yeltson and parliamentary rebels. This was a time before Twitter and similar social media services remember, being able to casually chat with someone across the world was still new to humanity. During the Gulf War, IRC was used as a means of communication to share news and updates in real time without having to wait for traditional media ( here are all of the chat logs). They still do, in private hush hush channels. People also used IRC to download music and movies and everything else through file sharing scripts and bots. There were no Facebooks or twitters back then, so if you wanted to communicate with your fans, you could setup a channel on a server within one of the networks, and tell people that’s where they could find you. Let’s say you ran an Ultima Online guild, or a Quake server, or even just a popular gaming news website. Back in the day, IRC was used by many people with similar interests to connect and engage with each other. There are hundreds if not thousands of networks out there, each kind of with their own purpose. With IRC, each server belongs to a network.
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