Gregory's Server@cammac I was going to mention IRC in this but it feels like it belongs earlier! I did still use it in that time period (a decade ago) but very rarely. I learned whole chunks of the protocol in the early 2000s because Napster was basically a hacked up IRC client
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@tomw @cammac as an aside, Twitch chat is IRC, you can use an IRC client to connect to it, and some of the people I know from back in the day do. I use an app called Chatterino that is a multichannel chat client that makes use of that fact, so when I'm on a channel that is co-streaming with others I can see/interact-with the chat from them all while just watching one video feed.  @PeaEyeEnnKay @cammac That's neat – I've never really used Twitch for anything yet but this may come in handy to know someday!  @tomw @cammac I still use IRC daily and our 100person IRC community is still really strong. There's also things like thelounge that aim to modernize IRC https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge |
@tomw oh Napster, now there's a step in the past. How things were much simpler back then.