Today's topic for discussion is:
Obfuscation.

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The Wonderment that is IRC
One of my main gripes about 'Web 2.0': the fad seems to hang its hat on the idea that piles of unsorted messages, collected and distributed in a post/get manner, are actually real-time conversations. Back home, we called this type of proposition "bullshit." Live chat is real-time conversation, and everything else isn't.

So, IRC (Internet Relay Chat) has been around since '93 or so, and is simply not flashy enough to pass muster in the blog era. It's also synchronous, which is a real trait that dampens participation...except for the several (dozen) people sending "OMGWTFBBQ LOL" back and forth. They definitely benefit from synchronicity. Still, it's live chat, and live chat has value. I've collected a few choice moments from some logs I collected from various channels.

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