I met some of my first fannish friends in a Forever Knight IRC channel; we eventually broke off into a private channel, where we hung out for years.

[waves]

Loving this - feeling very nostalgic. And remembering staying after work for hours to use the computer. Even after the library had closed and everyone had left. And coming in on my days off to play.

And we were young and could stay up half the night chatting and go to work fine the next day :)