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

[Tyler Zahnke]

Apparently, it is! Not only is there an archive of strange leet
material, but the channels are still there! I think I got on there
briefly and saw Mo (I think that was his name) logged on.
Tyler Z


On 10/13/15, Mohamed via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> Is talking IRC still around today?
>
> On 10/13/15 06:19 PM, Tyler Zahnke via Dectalk wrote:
>> 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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