Some time ago I started using an all text based chat service called efnet. However this is not where I started at. I think the first network on the internet that I connected to was probably called undernet and after a while of trying to seek and figure out how to find things on the internet back then, I ended up on efnet at a suggestion from a user on the undernet network.
So in 1992, there did exist "efnet". But also in 1992, there was no graphical web as we see today. A lot of commands used on the ISP I was connecting to were unix commands. It was like dialing out to a unix terminal of some sort and navigating a shell account with those commands. So how was it that I ended up on irc? Well quite simply, one would type "chat" and hit enter. And somehow logically one would type /server and then whatever server to connect to followed by another enter. How I found the address, I can't recall. Maybe there was a help command, maybe they listed one or two on a bbs post, or maybe I used some sort of internet search to find out how to use it. All text based searching, none of this google finding or what we have today (actually I believe altavista existed back then or at least something similar).
So am I the only one left well probably not. After all, amptor is only one of the nicknames I used on the internet a long while back. But I am assuming that the rest of the people who I have chatted with from various groups and such are still around but may have changed their nickname and more than likely moved to hobbies that have nothing to do with gaming or might be people who own playstation 3's or such and don't care about all this extra hardware modification and such any more.
It is too bad though that many who still are left out in the open, especially on efnet itself, are quite immature. Sometimes heavily into drugs or whatever else goes on on that network. I'm not sure why anyone would want to venture onto there any more. I remember years ago I'd mearely hear about people who drink once in a while. Such as Fazwonga. That is all he did was drink beer and he liked to talk about that. Seems like nothing really affected him and he just liked to come on once in a while and then go out and have fun.
Everything should have and should be about having fun. That is what gaming is for. But as of late, there sure are a lot of people who want to undermine that. I guess those are people normally who get passed off or nobody pays much attention to.
The last thing to say in this blog post is that it at least used to be fun to use irc (primarily efnet, I mean), but most people that were intelligent to chat with on there no longer are there. Many people hardly even have time to use a messenger any more and are off onto other things, mainly work. It would be good to have a decent chat place to go to, but I guess over time it just becomes something of little significance to many.
so much for speechles too and many others. last time someone contacted me from efnet, he said that every chat room he goes to is entirely dead and people just idle there. it rather serves no purpose to idle in a chat program if you think about it. it is for chatting and not much else. Being idle just to have your name on it doesn't cause you to "rank up" or anything. It's not really an achievement based program. But I do remember it was, at a time, addictive to just have that MiRC icon sitting in the tray and knowing that it was connected to a network.
So in 1992, there did exist "efnet". But also in 1992, there was no graphical web as we see today. A lot of commands used on the ISP I was connecting to were unix commands. It was like dialing out to a unix terminal of some sort and navigating a shell account with those commands. So how was it that I ended up on irc? Well quite simply, one would type "chat" and hit enter. And somehow logically one would type /server and then whatever server to connect to followed by another enter. How I found the address, I can't recall. Maybe there was a help command, maybe they listed one or two on a bbs post, or maybe I used some sort of internet search to find out how to use it. All text based searching, none of this google finding or what we have today (actually I believe altavista existed back then or at least something similar).
So am I the only one left well probably not. After all, amptor is only one of the nicknames I used on the internet a long while back. But I am assuming that the rest of the people who I have chatted with from various groups and such are still around but may have changed their nickname and more than likely moved to hobbies that have nothing to do with gaming or might be people who own playstation 3's or such and don't care about all this extra hardware modification and such any more.
It is too bad though that many who still are left out in the open, especially on efnet itself, are quite immature. Sometimes heavily into drugs or whatever else goes on on that network. I'm not sure why anyone would want to venture onto there any more. I remember years ago I'd mearely hear about people who drink once in a while. Such as Fazwonga. That is all he did was drink beer and he liked to talk about that. Seems like nothing really affected him and he just liked to come on once in a while and then go out and have fun.
Everything should have and should be about having fun. That is what gaming is for. But as of late, there sure are a lot of people who want to undermine that. I guess those are people normally who get passed off or nobody pays much attention to.
The last thing to say in this blog post is that it at least used to be fun to use irc (primarily efnet, I mean), but most people that were intelligent to chat with on there no longer are there. Many people hardly even have time to use a messenger any more and are off onto other things, mainly work. It would be good to have a decent chat place to go to, but I guess over time it just becomes something of little significance to many.
so much for speechles too and many others. last time someone contacted me from efnet, he said that every chat room he goes to is entirely dead and people just idle there. it rather serves no purpose to idle in a chat program if you think about it. it is for chatting and not much else. Being idle just to have your name on it doesn't cause you to "rank up" or anything. It's not really an achievement based program. But I do remember it was, at a time, addictive to just have that MiRC icon sitting in the tray and knowing that it was connected to a network.
