Documentation and ramblings of Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of curl.
IRC.org
Something is formed by the electrons, born in the silent cable. Shaping and growing and ungrowing. It is there yet not there. It is the source of Internet Relay Chat. I do not know the name, thus I will call it the Tao of Internet Relay Chat.
iroh 1.0
How It All Started: Pre-W3C Web and Internet Background
1971: Ray Tomlinson of BBN creates email program to send messages across a distributed network.
Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal
Guardian found OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers
IRC.org
I originally wrote this as a general history of the #gb channel but realised that it was getting a bit too biased towards my involvement as I went on. I present this as my personally biased history of the channel, and of early British IRC. I shall try and collect a few more viewpoints to present in other parts of this site.
TIL: Iroh: peer-to-peer networking for app developers
I came across Iroh (via, via) today as it hit 1.0 and found it a really interesting solution to a problem I knew existed but had not thought a lot about. Judging from the comment sections, it seems pretty clear that lots of people are confused as to exactly what Iroh is. I don’t think their launch post does their product justice at all, and their tagline is “IP addresses break, dial keys instead” which sounds cool, but if you think about it for just a second, you’ll end up with lots of questions. The biggest one is: “so how is this different from a mesh VPN like Tailscale, ZeroTier, Netbird, etc.?” It’s only after reading a lot of developers’ comments on the threads that I feel I understand: Iroh is aimed at application developers who want to communicate P2P between machines running their app, while mesh networks are aimed at network admins who want to connect devices they own/manage together.
Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes
In 2007, a small team at Yahoo! briefly changed how we program the internet. This is their story.
Anil Dash on The Web We Lost
Riven
A modern platform for original content, genuine conversation, and a feed that's actually yours. Built on the AT Protocol.
Stephen Haney on Twitter / X
I'm very excited about WebMCPHere's Paper in an iframe, being controlled by an external agent that wraps it, all in the browserWebMCP opens up cool embedded flows pic.twitter.com/YtbsQYbUQT— Stephen Haney (@stephenhaney) September 2, 2026
Setting up an IRC server / a Neatnik Guide
Take back your privacy and independence by running an IRC server. It’s easier than you think!
one of the most radical actions the @npmx.dev community took was talking with every single human being who joined our chat server. more than 500 people were welcomed, encouraged to join our open conversations, ask for guidance, share their own ideas, and jump into action when they see opportunities
@pfrazee.com said something interesting about @tangled.org (paraphrased) “the most important thing they did is define the lexicons” Atproto is the protocol for protocols, and protocols die slow
Well they made IRC for agents over Tailscale, so I guess we’ve reached that point in the robot takeover
Victor Arias 🍰
Here the tool I built to have agents talk to each other: github.com/victorarias/agentzap It’s super simple. Just install, init, run the server and ask agents to start a conversation. I used it over tailscale to have Claude on my Mac talk with Codex on a Linux VPS. (1/2)
