October 7th, 2007 by phrozen77
In October 1992 Danny “WildThang” Mitchell, Donald “WHIZZARD” Lambert, and Laurent “_dl” modified the EFnet irc2.7 IRC deamon and started an experimental network that became known as the Undernet IRC network. This month it will celebrates its 15th anniversary.
Today Undernet still is one of the largest IRC networks where on average 120k users are online.
More information on Undernet’s history can be found on this User-Com page.
Undernet’s User-Com is planning an event of which details are not yet known.
There is also a group of users who are independently from Undernet organizing an event which will take place the 25th of November in #undernet15.
Tags: IRC, Undernet
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September 25th, 2007 by phrozen77
On the 13th of May IRC-Junkie reported that Syzop had to retire as maintainer on the UnrealIRCd team because of RSI injury to his wrists.
“And I’m back! I was forced to go inactive 4 months ago due to a severe wrist issue. Now, after surgery and 3 months of recovery, I’m starting to get back on track again and I’ve resumed my position as Unreal3* maintainer in the UnrealIRCd team”, Syzop announced on the UnrealIRCd website.
Tags: IRC, Software, Unreal IRCd
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September 18th, 2007 by phrozen77
EFnet.org reports the passing of Brad Allan Killebrew (also known as Jafo), admin on EFnet of the servers ircd.lagged.org and irc.nac.net.
“Mr. Killebrew was born in Temple to William Lee and Dianne Killebrew. He was a systems engineer for the Texas Network. He lived in Temple until the age of 10 and moved to Humble with his family where he graduated from Humble High School. He received a bachelors degree from the University of Houston. He was a member if the Institute for Electronic Engineer Computer Society, North American Network Operations Group and the American Radio Relay League. He was also an amateur radio operator”, the EFnet site reports.
Tags: EFNet, IRC
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September 18th, 2007 by phrozen77
It has been 25 years ago that professor Scott E. Fahlman, working at the Carnegie Mellon University, for the first time used the 
emoticon (or smiley, depending on your religion on this) in an email.
He used the emoticon on a bulletin board in a discussion on the topic of online humor and the limits of it to express comments meant to be taken lightly. “I propose the following character sequence for joke markers: ,” he wrote. “Read it sideways.”
Variations on the original emoticon started to pop up pretty quickly, like the 
wink variation. The IRC ABC article on this page contains more exotic emoticon such as <:-) (Santa Claus) and 12x@>—>— (A dozen roses).
Tags: IRC
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August 28th, 2007 by phrozen77
“After a long period of downtime, Defender is back under active development. There’s a lot of mess as far as the website goes (under construction yadda yadda) but at least there’s someone to get a hold of if things go wrong”, the IRC Defender website announced. This modular Perl based piece of software is coded to help networks with security issues such as worms, spambots and viruses.
Tags: Chatspike, IRC, IRC-Defender, Network Addons
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