I have some screen recording software on my computer that I occasionally accidentally leave running. One time, without knowing that I was recording myself, I ended up watching a whole movie with my friends, so the whole movie and our conversations were recorded.
A couple years later I found the video file and decided to rewatch the movie via the recording I took, so I was also hearing my conversations from the past.
So many times during the movie rewatch, I would come up with the exact same response in the conversation just before or after my past recorded self would say the same thing.
Yeah all clients keep chat logs to some extent to allow you to scroll back etc. Some clients like IRSSI delete logs after 24 days I think, but Hexchat just lets logs grow indefinitely and leave it to you to set up deletion of old logs.
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I have some screen recording software on my computer that I occasionally accidentally leave running. One time, without knowing that I was recording myself, I ended up watching a whole movie with my friends, so the whole movie and our conversations were recorded.
A couple years later I found the video file and decided to rewatch the movie via the recording I took, so I was also hearing my conversations from the past.
So many times during the movie rewatch, I would come up with the exact same response in the conversation just before or after my past recorded self would say the same thing.
I never used IRC so idk much about the clients, but is it possible his client just did that as a packaged feature?
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Yeah all clients keep chat logs to some extent to allow you to scroll back etc. Some clients like IRSSI delete logs after 24 days I think, but Hexchat just lets logs grow indefinitely and leave it to you to set up deletion of old logs.