- Start wasting lots of time in MSN chatrooms
- Parents cancel MSN and switch to local ISP. Mourn loss of chatrooms.
- Discover IRC using the mIRC client
- Start playing around with mIRC scripting
- Get into Linux because that's what the crowd I hung out with on IRC was using
- Switch to epic and BitchX and start scripting on this clients
- Get into eggdrops and start scripting those and then start looking through the actual source code and making changes
- Start writing my own bots
Amazing how much my current career as a software dev is owed to things I learned because I liked "wasting" time chatting online.
- Start wasting lots of time in MSN chatrooms
- Parents cancel MSN and switch to local ISP. Mourn loss of chatrooms.
- Discover IRC using the mIRC client
- Start playing around with mIRC scripting
- Get into Linux because that's what the crowd I hung out with on IRC was using
- Switch to epic and BitchX and start scripting on this clients
- Get into eggdrops and start scripting those and then start looking through the actual source code and making changes
- Start writing my own bots
Amazing how much my current career as a software dev is owed to things I learned because I liked "wasting" time chatting online.