# Old School #straightdope IRC Night July 9 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 30, 2010, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-straightdope-irc-night-july-9/545024 "2010-06-30T02:57:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-straightdope-irc-night-july-9/545024/21 "2010-07-01T16:37:26Z")
**kopek** , you might try X-Chat. I hear that is a good Mac IRC client. [X-Chat Aqua download | SourceForge.net](http://sourceforge.net/projects/xchataqua/) **Ogre** : Muwahahaha! ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-straightdope-irc-night-july-9/545024/22 "2010-07-01T17:05:53Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > Hmmm, I had it idling all night, only to check in this morning and find out that **Demo** and **tr0psn4j** had been plotting my murder! :eek: You weren’t supposed to find out… YET! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-straightdope-irc-night-july-9/545024/23 "2010-07-03T22:51:48Z")
I was drunk enough to download mIRC again and figured it out, even in my alcoholic fugue, but it seems no one is there at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-straightdope-irc-night-july-9/545024/24 "2010-07-04T00:14:44Z")
I _think_ I have it set up. I’ll leave it connected tonight if anyone wants to check on me. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-straightdope-irc-night-july-9/545024/25 "2010-07-04T00:55:08Z")
I made it in! Wow, it’s been so long since I’ve used irc. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-straightdope-irc-night-july-9/545024/26 "2010-07-04T06:24:42Z")
No one’s chatting on a holiday’s eve, it seems. It is rather late, I suppose. Oh well. I shall try again! ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-straightdope-irc-night-july-9/545024/27 "2010-07-04T06:31:18Z")
Not to be a total Negative Nancy, but I work Fridays. Even if I wasn’t working, I’d be out on a Friday night with friends from Meatspace. I love y’all dopers more than you know, but I would not sacrifice a night out with friends in order to chat about kittens and poop with y’all on IRC. I’ve been there, done that haha. It’s probably too late, but I highly recommend changing it to a weekday where the more social among us will have less going on, and perhaps everyone can join in. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-straightdope-irc-night-july-9/545024/28 "2010-07-04T11:32:19Z")
Generically “the evening of 7/9”, or did someone ever set a time? ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-straightdope-irc-night-july-9/545024/29 "2010-07-05T04:16:55Z")
The past few times we had Old School #straightdope IRC Night people just popped in whenever, but usually in the evening when some of us had our drink on. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-straightdope-irc-night-july-9/545024/30 "2010-07-05T05:09:50Z")
Daggum! I used to hop on #straightdope a _lot_. . . it was in the pre-Facebook years, back when North Dakota only had dial up Internet access (I think they’re still stuck there). If I’m around, I will. Tripler . . . should be here, though. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-straightdope-irc-night-july-9/545024/31 "2010-07-05T05:20:12Z")
I was on straightdope chat once. For about twenty minutes. It was quite a while ago. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-straightdope-irc-night-july-9/545024/32 "2010-07-05T05:22:30Z")
> [@Demo](#): > > **kopek** , you might try X-Chat. I hear that is a good Mac IRC client. [X-Chat Aqua download | SourceForge.net](http://sourceforge.net/projects/xchataqua/) > > **Ogre** : Muwahahaha! This seems to have worked. I’m in there now, but no one is talking to me. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-straightdope-irc-night-july-9/545024/33 "2010-07-08T15:06:37Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > Generically “the evening of 7/9”, or did someone ever set a time? 8 PM East Coast, 5 PM West Coast is the general guideline, but consider it a drop-in sort of thing. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-straightdope-irc-night-july-9/545024/34 "2010-07-08T17:03:37Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > OK - tech question that probably belongs elsewhere. I’m running OS X 10.4.11 and the download site says its for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2k/XP/Vista --------- suggestions? > **[IRCHelp.org — Mac IRC Clients](https://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/mac/)** > > irchelp.org is a website about the workings of IRC for both newbies and experts alike. It exists since 1996, but has recently been converted to jekyll. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-straightdope-irc-night-july-9/545024/35 "2010-07-08T19:57:23Z")
I’ll be there if I remember. I used to have fun with other Thundercats fans chatting as two or three people at once. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-straightdope-irc-night-july-9/545024/36 "2010-07-08T20:08:09Z")
Ahhh, #straightdope…I think most of my time spent there was my last couple years of college and my first couple years out of school at a “real job.” (2002-2006.) I’m fairly certain all I ever did was bitch about girls, my job, and where I lived…life of the party over here! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-straightdope-irc-night-july-9/545024/37 "2010-07-08T20:52:37Z")
_Memories_… in the corner of my mind… ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-straightdope-irc-night-july-9/545024/38 "2010-07-08T21:05:04Z")
JvO? ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-straightdope-irc-night-july-9/545024/39 "2010-07-08T21:37:49Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > _Memories_… in the corner of my mind… Same here. I just tried to log on and got needlessly flummoxed. I got as far as finding the undernet then got lost. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![MamaHen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@MamaHen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MamaHen)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-straightdope-irc-night-july-9/545024/40 "2010-07-08T23:35:46Z")
Wow, all the hours I spent in #straightdope. Yeah, I’ll be there, some things you just can’t get enough of. Being taunted by all of you is about 100 of them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-straightdope-irc-night-july-9/545024.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-straightdope-irc-night-july-9/545024.md?page=3)