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UID:pretalx-romhack-camp-2026-RBQXR3@cfp.romhack.io
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DESCRIPTION:Before Slack\, before Discord\, before Telegram\, there was IRC
 . A protocol so simple you could read it with netcat\, so resilient it sur
 vived 35 years of "IRC is dead" articles\, and so transparent that what yo
 u typed was exactly what the server saw — no algorithms\, no tracking\, 
 no engagement metrics.\nThis late-night session is part storytelling\, par
 t live hacking. We will walk through the history of IRC from the Italian u
 nderground scene of the late '90s — irc.tin.it\, war scripts\, channel t
 akeovers\, netsplits\, and the culture that shaped an entire generation of
  Italian hackers — to deploying a modern IRC server in 2026 on a self-ho
 sted LXC container with TLS\, persistent history\, and integrated services
 \, no third-party dependencies.\nBring your laptop. We will spin up a live
  server at the camp and open a channel for attendees to join in real time 
 via browser or terminal client. You will register a nick\, join a channel\
 , and experience what real-time communication looked like before corporati
 ons decided your attention was a product.\nNo slides. No frameworks. Just 
 a terminal\, a protocol from 1988\, and a conversation about what we lost 
 when we handed our communication to platforms we don't control.\nSuitable 
 for all skill levels. Nostalgia-prone attendees may experience involuntary
  emotions.
DTSTAMP:20260921T191337Z
LOCATION:WORKSHOP 2 (GetRoot no Jutsu)
SUMMARY:IRC is not dead: self-hosting real-time chat like it's 1996 (but wi
 th TLS) - Myfox
URL:https://cfp.romhack.io/romhack-camp-2026/talk/RBQXR3/
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