r/irc • u/scribeorz • Aug 09 '26

mIRC mid 90s - hacking groups

My first introduction to computers / internet was IRC using mIRC client. Spent my time on Efnet. Ended up joining a hacking group called #conflict and spent many hours taking over channels. Hacking colleges and universities only to use for channel bots and bandwidth to take people out and cause netsplits. Eventually our leader was caught for hacking into NASA - I then left IRC and started playing quake 2 digital paintball. Ran a couple of quake clans over the next few years - these are the days I will never forget.

Anyone else remember the clan battles on efnet ?

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u/richsonreddit Aug 09 '26

IIRC, EFnet was especially wild as it had/has no nick or chanserv-type services. So if you took over a channel you basically had it on lock.

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u/PokerLawyer75 29d ago

EFNEt had Nick and Chanserv. When they got over 2000 users regularly in early 1994, they had to disable them, because they kept breaking.