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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 26 2018, @12:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 26 2018, @12:32PM (#726525)

    I did send a message at the time, politely, and got back some form of a "no". They may not have liked Proton Mail. I can't think of any other form of verification hoop that I would want to jump through. They already made their stance clear. They want to block or track bots and trolls, so privacy doesn't exist on Discord.