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EFnet IRC Network Changes its Name to ErisNet as "The Great Split" is Undone

posted by martyb on Monday April 02 2018, @06:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the vintage-networking dept.

"ninex" writes:

EFnet announced that the server (eris.Berkeley.EDU) that caused the original IRC network to split back in 1990 ("The Great Split") has rejoined the network. Because of this EFnet (Eris-Free Network) changed its name to "Eris Network", or ErisNet.

eris.Berkeley.EDU is once again serving IRC clients (on ports 6667, 6668 or 6697, 9999 for SSL), thanks to UC Berkeley OCF.

See the news post about this change on http://www.erisnet.org/erisnet_pressrelease.pdf

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by LoRdTAW on Monday April 02 2018, @02:08PM (6 children)

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Monday April 02 2018, @02:08PM (#661459) Journal

    Lol, yea. What a bunch of old fags. I mean, who would want to use a proven free chat protocol with dozens of cross platform clients that's not controlled by a single for-profit company?

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 02 2018, @03:54PM (5 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 02 2018, @03:54PM (#661532) Journal

    Spellcheck needed. I think it's "oldfag" and "newfag", without spaces. With the spaces, you might be talking about any old fag on the street. Without spaces, you're talking about gamers, nerds, techies, etc, who generally are sexless anyway. Maybe we should check with 4chan?

    • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday April 02 2018, @04:11PM

      by LoRdTAW (3755) on Monday April 02 2018, @04:11PM (#661547) Journal

      I suppose that makes me the oldfag then.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @07:13PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @07:13PM (#661629)

      Remember when /b/ used to be good?

      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday April 02 2018, @09:36PM (2 children)

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday April 02 2018, @09:36PM (#661676) Journal

        /b/ was never good. 4chan was never good. Think about the kind of people who would start a place like that.

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        • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday April 02 2018, @10:24PM (1 child)

          by bob_super (1357) on Monday April 02 2018, @10:24PM (#661698)

          It should serve the same purpose as Alcatraz, Sing-Sing, or Congress: a warning for the kids, about the worst of humanity.
          Sadly, the parallel works with Congress: someone forgot to properly declaw the 4chan bastards.

          • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 03 2018, @02:41AM

            by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday April 03 2018, @02:41AM (#661778) Journal

            So what does that make 8chan, the internet equivalent of MS-13?

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