#: The DALnet Default Channel: “What you say makes no sense, so why bother.”

Welcome to the home page of DALnet’s # channel. Yes, that’s right, the channel name is just the # sign—not #Chat, nor #Jakarta, nor even #0!!!!!!!littleboysexchat, just #. Call it what you will—number, hash, pound, thatch, crosshatch, octothorpe, tic-tac-toe—but it’s still just the # sign, unadorned by anything else.

The channel has been owned by the current founder, J^raxis, since 2002-10-21T23:11:39Z (with a brief interregnum with zac owning it), and was previously owned by WarDawg from 1996-01-13T22:53:10Z until then.

# is no ordinary channel. The peculiar name ensures the channel is constantly full of lost, confused, and usually unintelligible newbies who don’t know how to properly type a join command (try it yourself: type a join command with an extra space between the “#” and the name and see where you end up). # is constantly collecting new users—lost newbies who decide to stay or people curious to see if a nameless channel really exists. # is also probably the channel where you’re most likely to be kicked—ask “wer r da moviez?” or “can i be op plz” or any other obnoxious questions, or get on an op’s nerves, and see how long you last in the channel.

Other than that, anyone is welcome in #. The channel is primarily English-speaking and many of the people are from the United States, but over time the channel has collected users from all over the world who speak a multitude of languages—Arabs, Indonesians, Malaysians, Pakistanis, Türks, Russians, Chechens, Australians, Canadians, South Americans, Swedes, and more. If you fall into # at certain times of the day, you may very well find a bunch of users speaking Arabic, Indonesian, Russian, or some other language.

So—if you’ve wandered into this website and think you can handle #, please acquaint yourself with the information provided in the links below and then get on irc.dal.net and join #.

Remember, though: # is full of cocksmenglers.

• Frequently Asked Questions
• The Founder and Ops
• The Voices