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When I first started on the internet - before the Web was public property, and everything was green screen pure text. When I was online originally, I could sometimes be found on IRC using Demon's telnet client (long-since defunct) at irc-client.demon.co.uk. (International Relay Chat - for which I will provide a link to documentation sites when I get around to it) more often than not on the IRCnet channel "#dl-bar" (it used to be #gb, but a small number of self-important IRCops decided to stamp their hobnails, and most of the people who made the channel side-stepped). My preferred nickname was "scarlet", which in this context is a reference to my then all-time favourite television programme Captain Scarlet a children's programme made by Gerry Anderson in the late 60s (sad, isn't it?), and not a girl's name as so many of the drooling teen-dweebs on IRC seem to assume.
Unfortunately, scarlet is also a very sought after nickname Stateside, where they seem to hold to the idea that they have the divine right to own a nickname outright, irrespective of whether it's in use or not, and often take to repeatedly causing what is called "nick-collision" in order to gain it. The demand comes not least from girls/women who can't spell "Scarlett", and have aspirations as some glamourous Southern Belle. Their etiquette (or rather lack of) tends to belie any such claim. Since IRC nicknames cannot be duplicated at any given time on any given network I frequently used to resort to my secondary nickname of "starfire" (this time a reference to a favourite book, written by Ingo Swann, and highly recommended to anyone who likes plausible, if slightly odd sci-fi and crime/espionage themes.
On subject of IRC and and specifically the channel #dl-bar, there was a list of regulars to be found on the #dl-bar homepage. One view of the general story of the fall of #gb and the transition to #dl-bar used to be found along with an earlier list. Many of the current #dl-bar regulars were once denizens of #gb, and may have their pictures on display in the rogues' gallery that are the #gb picture archives (but you still won't find me).
I also like to play Quake or Half-Life online, but don't get the opportunity much these days.
I can also be found on ICQ by those who know the appropriate information. On the whole, the people who should know, already do... If not, e-mail me.
June 06, 2016
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