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In the early days of IRC, when you were a

Feb. 9, 2019 by Kenneth Newton

In the early days of IRC, when you were a member, it was easy to ask questions with no formal answers. You just had to write things.

When I joined, though, I was not just a nice person. I was, essentially, a software geek. I had been a software geek since I was a kid. I did not spend much time with computers before I joined the Internet as a kid. And yet, I remember, and believe me, I remember.

I remember, too. My first and foremost motivation for joining the Internet was the fact that I was a software geek—or at least a software geek interested in the web. I would have never been able to find a computer to join, unless my parents took home a Macintosh, but I knew that I could have any computer I wanted. And when my parents came home and I said I wanted a computer, I was able to find one, even if I wasn't able to get a computer.

I was an early software geek. I got a computer in my late 20's, the type of machine that was a typical software geek, but I was still an early software geek—so I was really interested in the web.

And the Internet, in fact, was more than that. It was a massive and important, powerful, and wonderful thing that was already coming into its own.

A few years later, I read about the development of the popular chat service, a company called chat (short for 'Chat Room'). It was a really nice service for computer users, but it was also a really bad deal—people wouldn't pay for it, and if they did, it was a big liability for the company.