IRC networks ran fine on hardware from 20 years ago. It is so much more efficient.
I once gazed in wonder at Twitter with similar disbelief: https://infrequently.org/2010/09/twitter-by-the-back-of-a-napkin/ … Modern software makes me slightly queasy, it turns out.
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