• MrMonkey@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    You left out IRC. It’s #channel drama was fantastic back in they day. Using net-splits to take over channels. Finding some jerk’s running an open proxy and using it to get the IP klined.

    I was struggling to remember FIDOnet! UUCP kept NNTP keept popping into my head.

    • Troy@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      My IRC experience is largely limited to openprojects.net (later freenode), and it had tools in place to prevent that drama. By the time the network collapsed under post-lilo management, I had already moved on. The drama that existed on other servers felt like rumour only.