Don't want to trash your #Windows10 machine? Who says you have to? There are ways to keep it working. Some of them will even let you keep running Windows 10.
In my early computing days, when computers were big and programs were small, I used the TI Silent 700 Terminal, which used thermal paper instead of a CRT for its display. Yes, it was a pain.
@sjvn But it purred beautifully. We had one in a house I shared w two CS undergrads in 1978 who had "borrowed" it to WFH. Found a printed chat in the kitchen one morning with someone using a terminal on campus, including the lines
YOU'RE AT HOME?!
I'M IN BED.
Had to use punch cards years later in grad school the US.
As William Gibson might have said, Dennis Jennings was already there, just not evenly distributed.
@sjvn yeah, but I guess you need to be able to post pictures and videos that were automatically shown and a channel history so you can see what happen while you were gone and lastly link directly to others posts, then I think IRC will become more popular, but I doubt that will happen in a near future, maybe 2238.
@sjvn I've only encountered one on the highway here, but I made sure the needledick driving it saw me pointing and laughing at him as I passed him. #IncelInside#ThinSkinnedNazis