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  • (Score: 1) by Jaruzel on Wednesday March 12 2014, @09:08AM

    by Jaruzel (812) on Wednesday March 12 2014, @09:08AM (#15120) Homepage Journal

    This.

    It's all the bloke that wrote mIRCs fault y'know. He added support for 'color' codes in mIRC which wasn't (still isn't?) part of the RFC spec for IRC, and before you knew it, every channel and its topic had mad rainbow ANSI style l33t speak text that no-one could read. At which point the grown-ups left and moved to moderated forums or private IRCDs etc.

    Recently, I've been scouting around for a modern IRC client with accessibility features (good text-to-speech for example) but haven't had much luck of yet. I think it's mainly to do with IRC being seen as a 'legacy' technology, much like UseNet.

    -Jar

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday March 12 2014, @04:40PM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Wednesday March 12 2014, @04:40PM (#15371) Homepage
    ii (irc it) and even sic from suckless can both just be piped to a speech engine (that can be driven from the commandline).

    Next time I'm on admin duties, I shall be testing out such a setup.
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  • (Score: 1) by NezSez on Thursday March 13 2014, @06:04AM

    by NezSez (961) on Thursday March 13 2014, @06:04AM (#15730) Journal

    IIRC the first use of ascii color codes I saw was in PhoEnix script (or however the caps thing was for it) shortly followed by a plethora of channel bots using them. There was some win32 client that was pretty much the only game in town (I can't remember the name), and then mIRC and Pirc came along.

    I saw your sig. I don't remember any ascii color codes being used for LambdaMoo until the win32 MUD clients came along!

    I don't suppose any of you remember #war by any chance?

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