<Sage> Santa Barbara, where I lived for a long time, where #philosophy was born in 1989. University of California, Santa Barbara is where #philosophy began when I was working 100 hours a week running the complab. I was lab manager, a student gig at UCSB, on the old Sun 3/50's... running BSD/X I discovered irc, and had a shell open to #philosophy every time I was there.. would usually play nettrek while I waited for someone to come on... mainly it was like 5-12 max.. sometimes no one for an hour or so... real philosophers ...lots of actual philosophy ... great convos.. still have logs somewhere.