On: Vim's 25th anniversary and the release of Vim 8

[wingerlang]

That's just IRC on a small computer though.

[noir_lord → wingerlang]

Sometimes the 'just' is where the magic is, we all know that slack is just a pretty irc that end users can grok.

That 'just' is worth a fee billion dollars though.

Makes you wonder if there are other tools in our world that could be a 'just' away from a billion dollars.

[wingerlang → noir_lord]

Sure but I think that it is still recognisable, which was the question.

25 year ago isn't //that// long ago? People using IRC at that point (I guess techies) surely would recognise it fairly easy.

Similarly you could look at a brand new Tesla and recognise it from a 1st car model or even a wagon.

[pvg → wingerlang]

People using IRC at that point (I guess techies)

College students, mostly.

[noir_lord → pvg]

I think I first used it ~1995 so that would be 22 years.

Hung around for about 5-6 years and it's been around in the background ever since, just got back into using it recently as one of the frameworks I use has a decent IRC channel and an even more decent offtopic, nice bunch of folks and with the ability to throw it in the background it gives a water cooler feeling when I'm working on my own and need to bounce an idea of people.