On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Dave Cross <d...@dave.org.uk> wrote:
> Finding it harder to trace the history of #perl though. Can anyone help > out there? Even if it's just an idea of when it first started. > > Oh, and when was irc.perl.org set up? > EFnet #perl was the 'original' Perl IRC channel - I'm sure Randall (and Simon Cozens?) at least can provide some more detail there, as they were both active ~15 years ago when I first started using it. I believe irc.infobot.org was set up either for YAPC '99 or 19100, and slowly but surely #perl migrated from EFNet to it. Some years ago, irc.perl.org was pointed to that network, which has variously been called MagNET, Rhizomatic, and I'm sure some others. Here is a photo of #perl users from 13 years ago! http://photography.mengwong.com/yapc1999/group-1.html -P