I know I said I would comment on my latest post about blog anonymity, but due to very limited internet time on vacation, I decided to post a new topic and then come back to the latest post.

Today, some friends and I were discussing the effect of blogs on the culture, and how incredible it is and about the potential it has to change things, and that discussion brought us back to another form of communication that was extremely popular back in the day, mIRC.

mIRC is still alive today, but I dont know anyone who joins regularly. The funny thing is, that from my generation, everyone has a personality or a nickname that was used on mIRC several years ago! This goes back to the blogger anonymity post in a weird way.

I think that everyone using blogs now was a mIRC user back in the day. We used nicknames and aliases and there was a whole culture raised using that chat program. My nickname back then was `3efreet. I rarely joined chanels like #kuwait or but I know for a fact that many people did, and many bloggers were regular IRCers.

So what was ur nickname then?

And how is blogging any different than blogs? Is it just another passing phase?!