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Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Turned Thirty Last Week

Accepted submission by canopic jug at 2018-08-25 09:57:48
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canopic jug [soylentnews.org] 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 [www.oulu.fi]. Even today, people are still using IRC and it is an essential communication tool for many distributed teams.

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