What’s with mirc that we are so addicted to it? Well to tell the truth I believe its the feeling of equity and freedom of expression amongst its users that has been giving us a platform to exploit.
I started out with mirc about 8 years ago i.e. 2001 when #aizawlchat was first created at dalnet.I don’t exactly know who the real founder was at that time but I have seen writings which say that Tetea was the original founder of the channel. At that time, there were very few internet connections in Aizawl and the concept of today`s broadband internet was unheard of at that time. A dial-up system via telephones lines was the only mode of obtaining internet connections which was slow and unreliable (though today’s Bsnl broadband hasn’t been such a change.
I was in New Delhi at that time, preparing for my entrance exams as I had just completed my 12th boards .I heard about mirc from some friends when I came home during a short winter break prior to my exams as it was the in thing in Aizawl at that time. I remember visiting a few cafes to chat in mirc.Though I never really knew much about it at the time. I would ask the cafe owner to help me get connected to the server :).I never really had a proper nick at that time and most of the time I would join the channel as a guest* and would get kicked eventually stating change nick new nick. I remembered being kicked thrice on the same day by one of the @ on this account because i didn’t knew how to change my nick lolz. I first registered my nick at dalnet in the year 2001 at my friend’s internet cafe that helped me along with it. I think the first nick which I had eventually registered at dalnet was Admiral^Von^Scheer.
After going back to New Delhi, I again started chatting with some friends who were also beginning to get a hang on it. I remember chatting with Wes^Borland who was one of the @s at that time at a place called Safdarjung in Delhi.The number of users had increased considerably by then and it was my first time in chatting for over three hours. I can't exactly recall what we use to do except for private messaging some weird nick and talk about silly stuffs. Then my exams were beginning to close by. I eventually call it a quit by the mid of 2001 as I was never really into it. So, the era of Admiral Von Scheer came to an end.
For the next two years i hardly touched mirc as I joined a Med school and had to spend most of my time in college as the schedule of our 1st and 2nd semesters was really hectic. So I close this chapter of my life in mirc at dalnet.I remembered a few months later that dalnet was facing a massive ddos attacks that eventually crippled the network for many months which had also affected #aizawlchat and its users who eventually had to move to other networks .I don't exactly know which networks the staff of #aizawlchat had tried during those periods but when i got back to mirc in the year 2003, it was re-established in a network called cyberarmy. It was then in cyberarmy that i rediscovered mirc and from that point of time, the second chapter of my life in mirc started.
So Guys and Gals, I will continue with my second chapter soon so do please hang on as the most interesting part of the story is yet to come heheh
I was in MIRC briefly but left because I didn't like what I saw there. Hope you dont get offended, but I was extremely alarmed and shocked at the groupism that was already there in MIRC. For example, there were two or three networks and people hated each other! And you weren't encouraged to be in more than one network, so there were rules like you could not use the same nick you use in network A if you are chatting at network B.
ReplyDeleteI found that extremely nonconstructive because we Mizos are so small and few, and fighting with each other is something we should never do. In the discussion forum world, we try and make sure people of one site (misual.com, larkhawm.com, buannel.com etc) dont throw rubbish at each other. This is something we cannot afford to do. Hence I used the nick "Sandman" in all the MIRC networks and though I was warned, I never changed it, and nobody kicked me eventually :-) But then, I left because I couldnt stomach the hate any longer.
Anyway, welcome to the blogosphere and hope this gives you a different experience from MIRCing :-)