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.
(Score: 2) by crafoo on Sunday August 26 2018, @01:24AM (2 children)
About the same population that used IRC in the 90s are still using IRC. Each successive generation that joins the internet reinvents chat, forums, and sharing in successively worse ways.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday August 26 2018, @02:44AM
Can't wait for hybrid forum-VR Third Lyfe.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Pino P on Sunday August 26 2018, @12:19PM
Let me know when standard distributions of IRC server software have solved these through included plug-ins:
Or should every user of IRC be expected to lease his or her own VPS on which to run a logging bouncer and an attachment filedrop?