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Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Turned Thirty Last Week

posted by chromas on Saturday August 25 2018, @08:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the irc.sylnt.us dept.

canopic jug writes:

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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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by richtopia on Saturday August 25 2018, @11:07PM (1 child)

    by richtopia (3160) on Saturday August 25 2018, @11:07PM (#726389) Homepage Journal

    Yes, everyone uses Discord or Slack or Google Hangouts or Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp or {insert alternative here}. These services are convenient, but being hosted on central servers means they can die. IRC demonstrates the resilience of an open, self-hosted design. There may be alternatives with more features available, but until you want to migrate you can keep using your IRC server as-is.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 26 2018, @12:55AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 26 2018, @12:55AM (#726408)

    Jabber. ( not Cisco's abomination, the real thing ).

    Distributed. Supports everything IRC does and more.