[DECtalk] How many of you are familiar with the Talking IRC Inside Jokes

[Tyler Zahnke]

Funny stuff! I always liked that weird geek culture that forums,
chatrooms and gaming sites tend to have. The blind will have a hard
time appreciating 4chan because it's an imageboard; all the main
threads are pictures. But these IRC channels? Totally accessible.
Tyler Z


On 10/13/15, jake mcmahan via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> Ok.  I am here to tell you, that talking IRC was a community of
> foolishness.  I used to venture onto it all the time when I was a young
> boy, and let me tell you, it was one rough and tough experience.  BOFH,
> leet, tards, all of that stuff.  Also, if flint, ace, mo, or jerry got
> annoyed with someone, they would make a nasty dectalk song about them.
> Chad and skyte were two classic examples. Never been on there since.
>
> On 10/13/2015 4:52 PM, Nick Giannak via Dectalk wrote:
>> Tyler,
>>     I was very much an outsider by choice to the Talkingirc culture. I
>> went on a couple of times and found myself annoyed at the overall
>> insider culture, found it unwelcoming, etc. To be fair, however, I
>> myself did a lot of this in the communities I ran at the time. In
>> summation, we were all foolish youngsters.
>>     The guy who programmed all synth material was Flint Million, who
>> also wrote the BOFHNet IRC and Freedom Chat clients at the time. The
>> networks associated with all clients BOFH, FC, TIRC, all merged
>> together around 2004. I know this because he himself still takes
>> responsibility for much of this by maintaining his classic website, as
>> well as a revised version. Both can be found here.
>> http://www.themillionweb.net/
>>     Cutiecat appears to be one Rachael Spangler. I know this only
>> because a friend of mine referred to Rachael by that name, but I have
>> never brought it up to her in conversation. Frankly, I have little to
>> talk about with her from that time, in my limited attempts at visiting
>> that network, I never, ever, ever ran into her.
>>     BOFH, of course, doesn't refer to the person by that name from the
>> skits. His real name escapes me, but I know that cancer took his life
>> around the same time as all of this was going down.
>>     Everyone else? Honestly, I don't know. I have a good idea who Mo
>> was (mohaned sayegh), but that's really it. I hope this clears a few
>> things up.
>> Thanks,
>> Nick
>>
>> On 10/13/2015 5:58 AM, Tyler Zahnke via Dectalk wrote:
>>> I remember, several years ago, when the DECtalk Archive was a public
>>> website, the Miscellaneous folder had all these little odds and ends,
>>> and some of them were just totally off the wall, including a song that
>>> says "CutieCat is leet". The Vocalwriter section had a parody of the
>>> Beach Boys song "Fun Fun Fun" about the BOFH (which stands for
>>> something I'm not sure if I'm allowed to say on this list). Now, I
>>> kind of knew about the BOFH stories as they were originally written,
>>> and I knew about LOLcats and other silly cat pictures, but not
>>> CutieCat, and I knew about people calling things leet (or l33t, or
>>> 1337) and I knew about n00bs, probably because I felt like one. But I
>>> didn't really understand what context these particular bits were in.
>>> But today I discovered the Talking IRC site, which includes files of
>>> synthesizers using leet language, including the CutieCat song and the
>>> BOFH song. Were any of you mailing list members familiar with this
>>> Talking IRC culture? Someone who was good with making DECtalk sing was
>>> picking on people for not being leet, and it almost always used the
>>> same format; "He sucks, he sucks, he suuuuuuuuuucks". Who were these
>>> users getting picked on? I'm guessing they were part of the
>>> #talkingirc channel. They must have been some rather annoying users to
>>> get that treatment. How many of you were part of this, or were at
>>> least familiar with this? And who was the DECtalk programmer telling
>>> people they were leet or not leet (more often not leet) using songs?
>>> Tyler Z
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