Today is Alec Eso’s birthday!
For those of you that haven’t noticed, Undernet is collapsing once again. If #asp is suddenly found without a home, this website is to be considered the main means for news distribution as we find a new location. Please make sure that you are subscribed to our rss feed. You can of course reach out to one of the ops, but whatever is going on will be documented here first.
As of today we are looking at networks with idle/abandoned #asp channels. So far I have tried QuakeNet, which actually works fine and even has a working web client.
Happy Birthday to @Subnet. He is Canadian, which means he doesn’t really age and there is no reason to send him gifts for his birthday.
That is, unless you can find him a pair of red leather pants. If you have to ask then you don’t need to know.
#asp stands for Active Server Pages, but only in the Undernet IRC network. In other places it means Alt.Sex.Passwords. If you are looking for porn passwords, please make sure that your IRC client is NOT connecting to Undernet, it can be embarrassing.
The original purpose of #asp was to allow ASP programmers (what is now known as “classic” ASP) to hang out, compare notes (read “pick each others brains apart”) and to help n00bs learn the idiosyncrasies of the platform. The administration of the channel has varied little in close to 10 years, with no more than two channel owner changes, new ops added more or less once a year and almost no ops being removed from the rolls. I am the current channel owner (with nicks VP|bofh, VP|mbp or other variations of VP|something) and there are about a dozen regular operators and some 20 regulars that have been around for 5 or more years.
When it was obvious that classic ASP was on its way out and ASP.net was gaining strength, we decided to let it ride and see if #asp.net would take off. It didn’t, which means that most people that are looking for ASP.net help will end up in #asp instead. Most of the regulars at #asp have by now switched to open source platforms, or are doing ASP.net so, if asked the right way, an ASP.net programmer may be able to get an answer.
The basic problem is that legitimate programming traffic amounts to maybe 5% of the local transient traffic in the channel. Most of the people either come here asking for porn passwords, or trolling for whatever the hell.
Thanks to general assholery on the part of some bored teenagers somewhere in Kuwait, I have no choice but to minimize my commitment to Wordpress. This means that this blog in particular is no longer running Wordpress in a Cpanel hosting environment, instead it is hosted in Tumblr.
The wiki is unharmed.
Let’s see how long this lasts …
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