playing some quake 2
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me getting an icb chat client working on Haiku after editing the cmakelist file and linking some libraries
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I’ve never heard of ICB before.
Just had a look at its website,seems to be some IRC alternative that has been around since the beginnings of the internet.
Sometimes I wonder how I could have missed such important parts of internet history.
Just wondering,are there any significant differences between ICB and IRC?
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There very similar but with ICB users have sort of a mail box and the interface is a bit different and trying to find a decent client for it as a pain in the butt mostly the reason why I know about it is because sometimes I’d get bored and I would start scraping the bottom of the internet and looking at different chat and web protocols I tell you you know you’ve gone too far down the rabbit hole when you start seeing a bunch of open source projects that were abandoned in the late '90s and early 2000s or something even older than that with little documentation be careful when you’re digging though there’s some things I’ve came across that are best left buried and probably nobody should Even mention because it would either be that it’s bad or it’s really good but it’ll open the door to something that’s really bad or somebody compromised the code and it’s just a malware
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Irssi actually used to have a plugin that would let you connect to ICB servers and pidgin did as well but I have yet to get both of them to work
I also like trying out older chat and network protocols.
Stuff was much more lightweight when different things had different network protocols and didn’t just abuse HTTP for everything.
It’s really amazing how simple and functional software used to work before enshittification became a thing.
I also like the Usenet very much,should really use it more.
A dedicated protocol just for forums that can be used in a native application is actually a great idea,should never have been replaced.
I think I’ll probably also give ICB a try soon.
If you know any other interesting protocols,it would be interesting for me to learn about it.
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Back in the day before internet became what it is now, I used BBS’ extensively, and ignored other like ICB, IRC and others…notmy thing. I my opinion Compuserve and Mosiac software changed everything then…and the dawn of the Internet as we know it began. I do miss those days…though not the 1440 baud communications. 
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there is a BBS server i still use
I saw that…gonna have to check it out.
I still have my Mosaic book and software from back in the day:
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how does firefox take 8 gb of ram??
I’m not sure, I know it should not
The Terminal output only says that 8GiB were in use, but not that it’s all used by Iceweasel. Haiku is caching stuff, so memory usage changes depending on how many apps you’ve launched before and whatever else you did exactly.
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ok thank you