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Jarkko Oikarinen wrote Internet Relay Chat (IRC) at the Department of Information Processing Science of the University of Oulu, in Finland, 30 years ago. Even today, people are still using IRC and it is an essential communication tool for many distributed teams.
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Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Turned Thirty Last Week
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You are a fluke of the universe; you have no right to be here.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday August 25 2018, @09:31PM (1 child)
Many years ago I met a man who was into the "darker side" of the internet. He frequented BBS's and was into warez, carding, smurphing, shell accounts, and all those other things that were cool before MTV made specials about them.
The common factor of all that was IRC. There were plenty of gentlemens' agreements about things back then, such as IRC fights in which people would take channels (be a hostile force in assuming control over other's) and whatnot. I cannot claim to be even close to an expert, but in developing the negroid bot LaDarius, I learned a great deal about how IRC actually works. Somewhere, in some private IRC channel, Russian hackers are discussing how to influence the next American election, like that time they got Donald Trump elected. Such is the power of IRC, and it will never die.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 26 2018, @02:02AM
God damn are you ever stupid, boy!