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I'm not sure I'd IRC anymore. I set up irssi a while back, and visited a bunch of networks. But, of course, go sorta gotta know what channels on what networks might be active, because starting/"join"ing one's own leads only to waiting endlessly for nothing.
"Bus Stop" seems a bit like chat to me, but at much slower pace.
But then so do replies at Midnight.
But back to whether I'd IRC. I'm not sure what *about*. "Oh, hey". "Hey". "Okay, see ya." Is kind of how I imagine it going. But I could be wrong. And beyond that, I rather enjoy spending time pondering how to reply, and working on a reply that feels fun/clever to me. I'm not sure I could feel that at chat pace.
IRC is max ephemeral for me, ha. I don't even have to think about exchanges had after. Just that I "chatted" a bit. IRC is also slow and consistent in a "sane" way, unlike AOL chats in the laught-90s (am I dumb for saying laught?). Ctrl-c reminds me of the AIM private chats I would put together nightly in 2001/02, just friends babbling about whatever all night. Ctrl-c isnt guaranteed that nightly. But it happens at times.