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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: [ANN] Ada IRC channel on Freenode
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On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 08:54:08 -0000 (UTC), John McCabe
<john@nospam.mccabe.org.uk> declaimed the following:

>On Wed, 07 Apr 2021 18:44:44 +1000, Rod Kay wrote:
>
>> About twice a year we try to advertise the #ada channel on the Freenode
>> IRC network.
>
>Wow! It's like a blast from the past; I've just started (re)using usenet 
>and IRC's still around! Does anyone still use Gopher and Veronica? :-)

	I believe the Mother Gopher was killed off some years ago. However,
there seem to be some 300 servers still out there based on links from
Wikipedia.


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