Woe is Me (and IRC)

Almost everyone uses some form of instant messaging. The much more popular nephew of email, instant messaging (IM; IMing) is ridiculously popular. Since there is such a demand for the service, a wealth of clients have appeared to fufill every niche that one could want. MSN, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo and even Google Talk all walk around with their "I own the minds of the 12-25 demographic" baseball caps as they strut their various features - video messaging, talk features, phone calls, spyware, ads and space-based lasers. But we as a disposable culture (sorry, cliche') a quick to forget the more humble beginnings of instant messaging - a creature called IRC. Look it up on wikipedia - I'm not a history book. Bottom line is, this arcaic medium is still used, primarily on a mass-communication scale (lots of people talking to lots of people), for people who want to talk to strangers, and for dedicated channels of help for a website or computer-related dilemma. So I figured, hey, lets try it out. I have nothing better to do, right? I boot up Miranda, and sign on IRC with the handle (think screen-name) of JoeNobody (IRC allows for the quick changing of screen-names). So I wait a bit, and before I even open a window...

Boop. Woah? A new message? Someone standing at the gates to welcome me to the paradise of IRC, as St. Peter guards the gate to enter heaven?

12:40:31 PM: hy pls join #onlinesex #onlinesex #onlinesex #onlinesex #onlinesex #onlinesex Cel mai tare canal de sex!!Aici poate vei gasi ceeace cauti!Daca iti place canalul te rog nu uita sa il bagi la favorit si autojoin..thanks }{}{}{}{

Damn.

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