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Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Turned Thirty Last Week

posted by chromas on Saturday August 25 2018, @08:48PM   Printer-friendly
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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: 3, Informative) by coolgopher on Sunday August 26 2018, @04:26AM

    by coolgopher (1157) on Sunday August 26 2018, @04:26AM (#726443)

    Back when the Internet hadn't yet degraded to the cesspit of today. When you could join a conversation on just about any network and have an interesting discussion.

    Eh, who am I kidding, we had the same lusers to deal with back then as we do now. Only the trolls weren't state-backed at the time.

    The ircd was my first introduction to "real" network programming. And the simplicity and elegance of the code really surprised me. I'd expected something far larger and more complicated.

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