← Back to context Comment by berkle4455 3 years ago IRC was the same way for 15 or so years, all mostly lost. 3 comments berkle4455 Reply wraptile 3 years ago IRC used to be indexed by Google and such though. Also because irc clients didn't have rich media support a lot of knowledge would make it outside of IRC like code snippets or microblogs that would eventually get indexed. theshrike79 3 years ago Google didn't "Index IRC". Source: have been on IRC before Google was a thing.What Google indexed was people's logger bots putting channel logs on the world wide web. wraptile 3 years ago Many channels had official logs
wraptile 3 years ago IRC used to be indexed by Google and such though. Also because irc clients didn't have rich media support a lot of knowledge would make it outside of IRC like code snippets or microblogs that would eventually get indexed. theshrike79 3 years ago Google didn't "Index IRC". Source: have been on IRC before Google was a thing.What Google indexed was people's logger bots putting channel logs on the world wide web. wraptile 3 years ago Many channels had official logs
theshrike79 3 years ago Google didn't "Index IRC". Source: have been on IRC before Google was a thing.What Google indexed was people's logger bots putting channel logs on the world wide web. wraptile 3 years ago Many channels had official logs
IRC used to be indexed by Google and such though. Also because irc clients didn't have rich media support a lot of knowledge would make it outside of IRC like code snippets or microblogs that would eventually get indexed.
Google didn't "Index IRC". Source: have been on IRC before Google was a thing.
What Google indexed was people's logger bots putting channel logs on the world wide web.
Many channels had official logs