IRC – Anyone still bothering?

A forum I sometimes nick in for info got a bit active today. Someone then decided to open up an IRC chatroom to facilitate the ongoing exchanges. So, for the first time since my introduction to the internet abot 10 years ago, I entered a chat room. This is after years of hearing about IRC but never bothering to go through the setting up process. But since the forum has become a favourite of mine, I thought I should at last find out how this IRC thing works. I shouldnt have bothered. I mean, how on earth does one strike any enjoyable conversation in a medium like that? Unless of course, one wants to chat with a specific person, whom one already knows, and it time and space means one cannot meet up and have a drink with such a person, hence IRC. So there…

“So, I commend the enjoyment of life.” (From the Bible – really. Eccl 8:15)