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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 25 2018, @10:25PM (1 child)
It's proprietary, what did you expect?!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 25 2018, @10:30PM
The proprietary of 10 years ago