Byxnet

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byxnet is an IRC network spawned from the ashes of a combination of channels on EFnet centered mainly around the first-person shooter gaming community of Quake, a game by Id Software that followed their wildly popular game DOOM.

With the first servers coming online in 1997, the network was officially named in 1998, formed by using the initials of the three founding people's nicknames: Bothrops, yossman, and Xach. These founders maintained the first IRC servers for the network.

yossman is the only founding member that continues to play an active administrator role on the byxnet IRC network. He provides a variety of support services, including free colocate hosting for some of the byxnet IRC servers via the yossman.net internet hosting network (irc.yossman.net), paying for the byxnet-related domain name renewals, and maintaining specialized access methods into the IRC network, such as secured web-based chat entry points.

In February of 2001, byxnet merged with the Cognet IRC network. In 2002, OpenIRC merged with the network. With the addition of OpenIRC, the byxnet family of servers is now home to some Open Source project collaboration channels. All three network names could be used in identifying the same network, though some regular users jokingly refer to the network as "bygcoxnet".

In 2002, anarchy.tamu.edu, after being a well known EFnet server for years, joined the ranks of the byxnet/cognet/openIRC server ring.

One of the core ideas surrounding byxnet is that of equality. Efforts are made to curb people's tendency to abuse their powers of authority when they are in a channel operator or IRC operator position.

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