RE: #vwscirocco

["Young, Patrick" <PYoung@netledger.com>]

Ahhh yes, talk, and it's relatives (my favorite was wtalk, talk to more than
one person at a time, with each person's text in a separate window.
Impressive for vt-based text stuff. :-)

-Pat

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Huff [mailto:scirocco86@home.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 3:13 AM
> To: Young, Patrick
> Cc: Scirocco List
> Subject: Re: #vwscirocco
> 
> 
> No, there was talk though :D write came around then with the 
> early AT&T
> UNIX release, didn't it? You could at least talk to people 
> that populate
> multiuser machines. The concept of IRC didn't exist until 1989 when a
> crazy finnish dude RFC'd it. peace,
> 	-Gary Huff
> 
> "Young, Patrick" wrote:
> > 
> > > I have been on irc since humm let see, the opening of datapac
> > > to the public
> > > (yeah the internet is that old people) in 1979, so I don't
> > > take offence to
> > > anything on IRC (GRIN)
> > 
> > While I applaud you for being on so long (I've been on the 
> internet, and
> > it's predecessors such as ARPAnet, since 1983), I have one 
> small problem
> > with the above statement.
> > 
> > IRC did not exist in 1979.  There were some other things, 
> BITnet relay for
> > instance, but that didn't get it's start until late 1984, 
> and early 1985.
> > BITnet relay chat also looked nothing like irc in it's 
> current guise looks.
> > BBS's and such filled in the chat need before that.
> > 
> > Ahh history, how I love it so.  :-)
> > 
> > Cheers!
> > -Pat
> > 
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