IRC: Pointless waste or useful tool?
May 10th, 2004
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Pirates, perverts and porn. Starting with the link to a NY Times article from last week, “The Internet’s Wilder Side”, that “emphasized IRC’s notorious reputation to a generally uneducated audience,” this article posed the question of direction for the IRC. Like so many tools, IRC is helpful for making quick contact, keeping in touch (important for isolated and work-at-home projects), and otherwise being social…
‘IRC should provide a way for people to meet and talk with people around the world without leaving their homes,’ Ryan Gluesing, who goes by the handle boyeh, tells me. ‘Instead, it has evolved like the rest of the Internet, now a place full of pornography and illegal file sharing.’