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A lot of the early Direct Connect web has gone offline over the years: wikis, forums and mailing lists where the protocol and its software were worked out. We rebuilt several of them as faithful, read-only mirrors so the knowledge stays reachable. More on the effort in the forum thread.

ADCPortal wikiWiki · ADC protocolADCPortal wiki

A reference for the ADC protocol and its extensions. Rebuilt from Internet Archive snapshots and a recovered content dump, in the original MediaWiki look.

adcpwiki.dcvault.netDCppWikiWiki · NMDC protocolDCppWiki

The DC++ project wiki and the main reference for the NMDC protocol, command by command. Reconstructed from 2005 to 2007 captures in its original MonoBook skin.

dcppwiki.dcvault.netDCBase forumForum · 2007–2019DCBase forum

forum.dcbase.org, the DCBase community forum for clients, hub software, scripting and bots. Rebuilt from a full database dump with working full-text search.

dcbforum.dcvault.netDC++ developer forumForum · 2003–2007DC++ developer forum

The older DC++ developer forum from archive.dcbase.org, where features and the protocol were hashed out. Over 4,800 topics, preserved with search.

dcbforum.dcvault.net/dcpp_forumsdcdev mailing listMailing list · 2003–2005dcdev mailing list

Where the DC++ authors worked out the protocol and the beginnings of ADC. 432 messages, rebuilt as a threaded, searchable reader.

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