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I don't know about trascended... But it definitely has gone backwards since.

But irc in its heyday had far higher quality and duration of connection than much that followed it. Maybe it was truly the first generation of the internet. I still have many of those teenage irc connections in my life years later.

It's not hard to imagine IRC surviving if it had a natural path to instant messaging when Icq/aim/yahoo arrived.

I welcome a return of a modern IRC.




I'm waiting on an NNTP revival.


Rss too


RSS was and is not dead.


Didn't mean to imply rss is dead. It's definitely not at the top of the pile where it should be either.




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