S2:E3 - The History of IRC and the Evolution of Community Tools

In this episode, we talk about the history of IRC and the evolution of other community building tools with Sara Chipps, co-founder of Jewelbots and director of public Q&A at Stack Overflow, and Jason C McDonald, CEO and Lead Developer at MousePaw Media.

Show Notes

• DevNews (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• DataStax (sponsor)
• Cockroach Labs (DevDiscuss) (sponsor)
• Swimm (DevDiscuss) (sponsor)
• Stellar (sponsor)
• Slack
• reddit
• PHP
• IRC
• Jewelbots
• Stack Overflow
• MousePaw Media
• C#
• ASP.NET
• JavaScript
• Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (1996 video game)
• The ClueFinders
• Reader Rabbit
• Python
• Visual Basic .NET
• ham Radio
• Usenet
• Discord
• DEV
• HTTP
• Freenode
• Nickname Registration
• The Great Split
• IRCnet
• DALnet
• PSF Code of Conduct
• K lined
• Eternal September
• Git
• Tracy Chou
• Block Party app
• Winamp
• C++
• Introducing "Dead Simple Python"

Sara Chipps

Sara is a Javascript developer, open source advocate, cofounder of Jewelbots and Girl Develop It, and Director of Community at Stack Overflow

Jason C. McDonald

Jason C. McDonald is an author, speaker, and software developer with a passion for communication. He's the author of the popular "Dead Simple Python" article series on DEV, soon to be a book from No Starch Press.