cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/31348896
There are some era-appropriate limitations, though
Says something about arbitrary bs from micropoo.
The article also points out that people were able to backport the entirety of .Net to Windows95, making “thousands” of modern apps backwards compatible with the operating system.
peak UI design
is IRC still a thing? This just makes me miss that, especially seeing the 95/98 UI
Yeah, I’m pretty sure IRC hasn’t gone anywhere. I have no idea if it has kept up with modern security practices or not, though.
You can do e2e encryption over IRC iirc. SASL (or something newer at this point for all I know.) Can’t really recommend it when defederated matrix servers exist as a modern alternative.
Buuuut you can run no-log encrypted IRC over TOR without hitting an exit node last time I checked, which is pretty comfy. Gotta trust your admins tho. Still super suboptimal compared to defed matrix using a non-default ident server.
Yes, absolutely. Certainly not as popular as it once was, but it’s still around and used. Libera is probably the biggest network (split from Freenode following some drama a few years ago), but some of the classics like EFNet are still around too.
I yearn for skype
I miss MSN Messenger.
I used to spend hours on mess.be finding modified clients, all the cool status styles and those giant emojis made out of emojis.
Man that was a fun time to be on the internet.
