Started by Ben Adler (@bennyhacks) ·
IRC is from 1988 and it's still running
Started on one server in Finland in August 1988, by mid-1989 there were around 40 servers worldwide. People used it to relay news during the Gulf War and the 1991 Soviet coup attempt, and the logs are archived.
5 sources · 33 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “history of IRC”
- Ended at
- “bash.org top quotes”
The Trail
- “history of IRC” (google.com)
- IRC (en.wikipedia.org)
- Jarkko Oikarinen (en.wikipedia.org)
wrote it at the University of Oulu to replace a chat program on a local BBS
- Netsplit (en.wikipedia.org)
- “bash.org top quotes” (google.com)
the quote database that taught me what irc was before I ever used it
Keep going
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