Somehow I ended up connecting to the Undernet IRC network today and joining #cyprus channel. Last time I did it was a good 10 years ago. Maybe even more. Back then IRC was a huge thing in Cyprus and all Internet clubs were full of kids chatting for hours. I remember, it was so packed, that I had to buy a club membership to get some priority in queue for my HTML hacking. And, of course, I did IRC too. What was happening back than on #cyprus channel? It was exactly as it is now. Here is a screenshot for you (I won’t go as far as posting a log of this noise).
What is different about it now? Well, it looks like they use a tiny bit less of colors. And they have their own web site now.
Me? I’m living on the FreeNode these days. That’s where most of the open source fun is happening (#fedora, #wordpress, #perl, #php, and others).