On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 09:15:44AM +0000, Peter Sergeant wrote: > 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.
I believe Rhizomatic was the name when originally set up, and MagNet is current. > Here is a photo of #perl users from 13 years ago! > > http://photography.mengwong.com/yapc1999/group-1.html And here's one from 8 years ago. http://www.panix.com/~dha/test/pix/IMG_2749.JPG We got tinfoil hats for Damian's talk that year. And you may or may not want to include this. :-) http://www.panix.com/~dha/test/pix/IMG_1833.JPG dha -- David H. Adler - <d...@panix.com> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ My glass might be half empty, but I am on the way to the bar - Simon Wilcox