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IRC as a World-Changing Medium

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the tell-mom-you-are-changing-the-world dept.

khaladan writes "Wired has an interesting article titled Chat Room That Built the World that talks about the power of developers helping each other on IRC. The article covers the case of #winprog on EFnet, where people such Justin Frankel (creator of Winamp), John Johansen (DVD Jon), and Shawn Fanning (of Napster fame) have come to chat, hang out, and get help. Many from Microsoft visit the channel as well. Ben Knauss calls it 'innovation in its purest form, without ego, money or fame as its goal.'"

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  1. IRC has gone downhill lately by jonwil · · Score: 1, Troll

    Even the warez channels suck (assuming you can find something to download, you end up in a queue with about 5000 other people). At least with p2p, you can just leave it running and it will download eventually.
    Plus with p2p, you can pause it (and shut down the PC, reboot, close the program, whatever) and come back later and it will continue where you left off.

    Oh and does anyone know of an IRC client for windows that is open source and which has good DCC functionality including DCC resume?