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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 32 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

/me slaps Maven around a bit with a large trout

Never understood why mIRC had a builtin for that.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 20 points 6 months ago

Most likely one of the programmers was a fan of Monty Python, or perhaps one of the other older references to being hit by a fish. It wasn't the only action command, just a weird one that lives on.

Here's an interesting dive into the idea of action commands and how they've evolved into things like emojis and netspeak common today.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It was a Monty Python reference and common IRC joke.

I would make bots that would just go around and slap random people with fish lol

I also wrote a contextual menu that was nothing but scripts for slapping the selected user with a wide variety of fish.

12 year old me was a fucking dork.

[–] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 months ago

upvoted, but just can I point out: “FartsWithAnAccent” 100% describes an adult-year-old dork 😜🤪

[–] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 7 points 6 months ago

Why wouldn’t it have

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Man that takes me back. Trout slapping was a huge thing on IRC in the 90's. I never understood why.

Edit: Apparently from Monty Python. Of course.