cord.atw.hu goes online at ATW in Hungary.
BUILT BEFORE “ALWAYS ONLINE”
BECAME ORDINARY.
One machine.
Over two decades.
No final quit.
In 2008, cord.atw.hu came online in the server room of ATW Internet Kft. in Hungary. It was never meant to be a glossy cloud product. It was a dependable Unix home for people who needed their IRC sessions, bots and tools to remain present long after a local terminal was closed.
Hardware ages. Networks change shape. IPv4 gained an IPv6 sibling, and one IRC endpoint became two networks. The original purpose stayed intact: provide a stable place in an unstable world.
Today the node is administered by mxl, connected to the history of IRCnet and to a newer parallel chapter — IRCnet2. It remains a working part of a small, stubborn ecosystem that still believes the command line is a social place.
A routed /56 gives every service its own place.
IRCnet and IRCnet2 share one technical home.
Operated by mxl, kept deliberately independent.