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no but apparently you can have some kind of coup on one of the most popular servers and cause a huge dent in it...

Ditto with Usenet albeit there's always cool people there.

... and never will :)

Spaceships bearing our genes will still beam IRC from somewhere down deep in engineering.-

What would be the purpose of launching a decaying lump of monkey meat into space when the AI can explore just as well with a tiny fraction of the mass requirements?

I'd wager that it will be AI's using IRC from space, but IPv6 still won't have replaced IPv4. :)

> wager that it will be AI's using IRC from space, but IPv6 still won't have replaced IPv4. :)

You are indeed totally correct on all points!

(But IRC it will be :)