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'''Maxwell's''' is a music club in [[Hoboken, New Jersey]] that also has a restaurant and bar.

'''AbleNET''' is an [[Internet Relay Chat|IRC]] network. It was founded, May 2001, by [[AfterNET]] Co-Founder and long-time Admin Anthony Sanchez and several others from that network. The network was set up primarily as a chat network for friends, and as a response to growing disillusionment with the policies of some of the [[AfterNET]] administrators. Several users from AbleNET were involved in the creation of [[AfterNET]]; some even tracing their usage back to [[TheNET]] and [[InnerNET]].

The intimate, cozy venue often attracts a wide variety of acts looking for a change from the New York City concert spaces across the river. It is also the name of Maxwell's House Coffee.

AbleNET is a small network with an average of 150-300 users online at any given time. The [[Undernet]]-compatible [[IRCu]] [[Daemon (computer software)|daemon]] software is used on the servers. [[IRC_Services|Channel services]] are provided using [[srvx]]; the user authentication service is named AuthServ and the channel service is named X.

==History==

AbleNET is noted for its distinct lack of [[IRCOp]]s, instead using various services to control the flow of network stability and activity. Additionally, the Network is noted for its high standards of access, regarding the limit of multiple connections and unverifiable "bots".

The club opened in the early 80s, but due to financial constraints was briefly closed in the mid 90s. On July 26th, 1998 the club reopened and has remained active ever since.

The network can be reached using irc.ablenet.org.

In the 2005 [[Village Voice]] Best of NY poll, Maxwell's was voted "Best Reason to Leave the State for Dinner and a Show"

== Historical Timeline ==

* May 2001, AbleNET is born and has served as a meeting place for chatters ever since.

* May 2003, with the looming threat of the [http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[e-mail] Fizzer Worm] AbleNET joins with a vast collection of [[IRC]] networks and news communities to form [http://www.irc-unity.org/ IRC-Unity]<ref>http://www.irc-unity.org/</ref>.

* December 2005, AbleNET becomes the first IRC Network to offer "blogging" to their community.

== Founder ==

Anthony Sanchez has been using and administering IRC Networks since 1995, starting as an IRCop with InnerNET subsequently [[NewNET]] during it's founding year. Later he went on to Admin servers for [[TheNET]], [[AfterNET]] and finally AbleNET.

Anthony was, coincidentally, the first to publish the story of the raid on and subsequent shutdown of the popular [[Lineage II]] private server, L2Extreme, on the AbleNET website.<ref>http://anthony.blogs.ablenet.org/l2extreme_fbi_shutdown</ref>

==Live AlbumsExternal links ==

* [http://www.maxwellsnjablenet.comorg/ MaxwellsAbleNET OfficialIRC Website]

Several bands have recorded live albums at the venue, including The Reigning Sound ("Live at Maxwells") and The Meat Puppets ("Live at Maxwell's 2.08.01").

* [http://wiki.ablenet.org/wiki/SRVX SRVX Help Files & Command List]

* [http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/Chat/IRC/Networks/A/ Google Directory]

* [http://searchirc.com/network/AbleNET Search Irc]

* [http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/details.php?net=AbleNET NetSplit.de]

* [http://www.srvx.net/ SRVX IRC Services]

* [http://irc-unity.org/]

== References ==

==Ongoing Events at Maxwell's==

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In addition to serving as a concert venue, Maxwells offers monthly swing dancing ("Swingadelic"), provides a forum for local musicians (with its free "New Jersey Songwriters in the Round" concerts), and opens itself up to weekly tuesday DJ nights.

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The legendary indie rock band [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_La_Tengo Yo La Tengo] rents out the club for the 8 nights of Hanukah every year.

==Links==

[http://www.maxwellsnj.com/ Maxwells Official Website]

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