Crunge

This article is AbOUT the defunct IRC network. For the Led Zeppelin song, see The Crunge.

Crunge or Crunge.org was a small IRC network before becoming a streaming video community that broke up in February 2007. While an IRC network, it provided a safe and open chat experience to its users. It utilized GeoDNS to direct its clients to a local server leaf, and used the InspIRCd IRCd.

Crunge was formed in January, 2005 by combining the internet communities ByteRush and Digital Depiction. In April, 2005, Crunge disbanded due to internal issues and later reemerged in May of 2005 with The New name of City-17.us. Crunge's name change was in celebration of the popular PC game Half-Life 2 and a new direction in the network. In August, 2005 City-17.us's servers suffered a major DDoS attack from a linking network. City-17.us's servers were canceled by its owners and it was disbanded.

In November, 2005, Crunge was given a new birth with hopes of creating a successful, stable, chat network. This

In late-2006, Crunge took a different direction, and decided to focus on streaming video. In February 2007, xptek was forced to change his priorities. Crunge was unable to be supported by the remaining staff and became defunct.

Current Server Administrators

• xptek - Ty Medsker
• incognito - Jacob Ball

IRC Operators

• CoreDuo - Matt Campbell

External links

• Crunge IRC Network — Official Website