- Byxnet
byxnet is an IRC network, which was formed from a combination of channels on
EFnet , centered mainly around the first-person shooter gaming community ofQuake .History
With the first servers coming online in
1997 , the byxnet IRC network was officially named in1998 , making it one of the oldest still running IRC networks in existence. Its name was formed by using the initials of the three founding people's nicknames: Bothrops, yossman, and Xach. These founders maintained the first IRC servers for the network. By the end of 1999, both Xach and Bothrops had delinked; bothrops ceased running IRC services, and Xach joined theGIMP IRC network. The IRC network also plays temporary host to additional users during theQuakeCon event when users in the BYOC area join to converse with some of the founders of theQuakeCon event.byxnet was also host to several Loony Games chats, hosted by Jason "Loonyboi" Bergman.
byxnet has also played host to other game related chats, with members from
id Software joining for the Loony Games launch chat.Recent Network Changes
In February 2001, byxnet linked with the Cognet IRC network. In 2002, OpenIRC linked with the network via cognet, as irc.openirc.org. All three network names were acceptable to use when identifying the IRC network. In 2002, the anarchy.tamu.edu IRC server linked to byxnet via Cognet, after being a well-known EFnet IRC server for years.
Cognet and OpenIRC brought with them a few official Open Source project collaboration channels, such as #windowmaker, #sage, and #lopsa, and the combined networks enjoyed a five year period of co-operation and relative IRC network stability. By February 2008, OpenIRC was being scheduled for shutdown, and #lopsa had been moved to LOPSA's new official IRC network, on irc.lopsa.org.
In March 2008, byxnet linked with dropnet, via irc.yossman.net and irc.ping.fr, at which point a total of 22 IRC servers were linked together. After a week's time, philosophical disagreements and politics surrounding the dropnet network linkage caused cognet administrators to delink from byxnet.
External links
* [http://www.byxnet.net/ Byxnet official homepage]
* [http://planetquake.gamespy.com/fullstory.php?id=65319 Loony Games IRC chat announcement]
* [http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/byxnet/ byxnet on netsplit.de]
* [http://community.livejournal.com/lopsa/1911.html #LOPSA leaving Byxnet]
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