Why did IRC die out in South Africa?

[Necropolis]

Likewise!

Spent a lot of time playing on lagnet. Also blabber and zanet. Mmm, I should find a trivia server and test my skills

Much time was spent on all those servers - especially back in the - free - R7 call days

I can remember being awake in the early morning weekend hours as to not hog our only line during the daylight hours

[Voicy]

I remember chatting on irc with my 6310i I think it was, not even a colour screen lol. I also remember using it to connect during the day as R2 was a better option than telkom dial. Mxit came along then it started to die and now bbm and whatsapp have taken over or so it seems to me

What I find ironic is how we were always shunned around the late 90's early 00's for speaking to strangers on the internet - when MSN or altavista were still the default home pages. Yet now that the broader populus have come online, it seems that the old ircers have more tact when it comes to cellphone etiquette whereas the new lot sit and BBM nonstop as if talking to others online is this new special thing.

[Necropolis]

What I find ironic is how we were always shunned around the late 90's early 00's for speaking to strangers on the internet - when MSN or altavista were still the default home pages. Yet now that the broader populus have come online, it seems that the old ircers have more tact when it comes to cellphone etiquette whereas the new lot sit and BBM nonstop as if talking to others online is this new special thing.

Hear, hear!

[DemonKnight]

Much time was spent on all those servers - especially back in the - free - R7 call days

I can remember being awake in the early morning weekend hours as to not hog our only line during the daylight hours

Exactly the same here. Those were the days

Do you know of any trivia servers that are active in South Africa?

[haiku]

Exactly the same here. Those were the days

Do you know of any trivia servers that are active in South Africa?

#trivia on Shadowfire is still there... Used to play last year and there were people playing. Just checked in now and I'm the only one there.
Maybe if the mybb trivia fans start frequenting it...

[Nicodeamus]

IRC was the reason that I passed german and almost got zero for English and Afrikaans spelling..

[wrathex]

IRC was brilliant, before todays planetary wide social networks, like MySpace & Facebook & Twitter, people from all over the world suddenly had the freedom and the means to communicate directly with others - private or in a group - it was groundbreaking !

The IRC: Time passes, the tech progresses, better lines, soon faster and better graphics. Social users loved the idea of seeing or hearing their online friends, this was a natural progression to bio sites on free web servers like Geocities, where social users could "Facebook" themselves for their IRC'ing.

The social networking revolution has begun, and while we surf the browser wars, watch the Apple vs Microsoft F1, enjoy faster and more mobile and lighter pc's and laptops, youngsters like Mark Zuckerberg born in 1984 takes social networking to a new height by creating Facebook, exactly what many social IRC users wanted way back.

I use to write longhand letters to penpals in other countries, and get replies.
IRC was the first next best thing to communicate with someone new or random from far away instantly.

IRC is not dead it is the foundation for all social networking we have today.

We are becoming planetary citizens, it is a quiet and slow process, taking place in the background, but it's happening, and I think social networking tools is just what we needed to set ourselves free from the suppression of information we have endured and the dreadful indoctrination that was so popular during the cold war era and the whole of history before that, mind you.