irc nyt omg wtf lol

TorgoX on 2004-05-06T10:07:51

Dear Log,

So seven and a half years ago ago, a writer for suck.com said:

«IRC, at its best, is a chance to trade obscenities and pirated software in real time while inflating one's own ego with other losers in faraway dark rooms with even less of a life than you, if that's possible.
[...]
IRC seems to be the net's equivalent of East Palo Alto, a grimy evil place of belligerent drug lords in the middle of a land of gold.»

--"Screaming in a Vacuum"

And today, here in the future, we have this brainwave from the New York Times, the paper of record for whatever its reporters pull out of their asses:

«Even as much of the Internet has come to resemble a pleasant, well-policed suburb, a little-known neighborhood known as Internet Relay Chat remains the Wild West. While copyright holders and law enforcement agencies take aim at their adversaries on Web sites and peer-to-peer file-sharing networks like Napster, I.R.C. remains the place where people with something to hide go to do business.»

--"The Internet's Wilder Side"

Read the article. Let it make you feel dirty.

If an evil gnome asks you for authorization, say "genital", "genital".


psst.. want warez?

nicholas on 2004-05-06T14:35:23

people with something to hide

Psst... Fed up with expensive software that doesn't do anything useful? Want some great software to give you commercial advantage over your competitors? Say no more, say no more.

Mmm. This makes me wonder. Which of out of immoral, illegal or fattening is perl?