@a1ba It wasn't just IRC, it ran on its own proprietary backend. In order to connect to it you needed to be able to connect to the Auth server first, but that may not necessarily have used a CD key check though - just an implementation detail perhaps.
The server software had a filter list, which would attempt to filter out your basic "bad" words. That was probably the extent of moderation back then. I have a copy of the bad words list somewhere and it's not all that long compared to modern filter lists. It may not reflect the state of the list by the time WON shut down though.
The server software had a filter list, which would attempt to filter out your basic "bad" words. That was probably the extent of moderation back then. I have a copy of the bad words list somewhere and it's not all that long compared to modern filter lists. It may not reflect the state of the list by the time WON shut down though.