It's amazing how some people can get so riled over a simple comment. Clearly I didn't realise you meant 'internet' or I wouldn't have brought it up, would I? Looking at it now you've said that it does seem relatively obvious, but it's amazing the things that don't occur to you at the time. In any case there's no need to get worked up because I inadvertantly pointed out a typing error with what I thought was a legitimate question.
With regards to me mentioning the death of IRC that was a reply to the general thread rather than any specific comment you made.
CloCkWeRX:
IRC and Betamax are hardly the same. For someone to bring back Betamax would require paying tens -probably hundreds- of thousands of pounds to manufacture new VCR's to play the format, not to mention convincing television/film companies that it's worth their while to release their content on Betamax tapes. However, to bring back IRC if it ever disappeared it would only require access to the protocol specs and later documentation of common additions/changes to the protocol or even just access to source code of other IRC daemons/clients - all of which is available on the net for free.
