IRC—Internet Relay Chat
Internet Relay Chat, or as it is more commonly known, IRC, is one of the most popular ways to chat with other groups of people from around the world. From the beginning it was designed as an enhanced replacement for the talk program. Its main purpose is to enable users to participate in real-time, simultaneous discussions with many other users. However, during its lifetime of more than a decade, IRC has evolved into much more.
Much like Linux, IRC has its roots in Finland. It was created by Jarkko Oikarinen in 1988. At that time he was working at the Department of Information Processing Science at the University of Oulu. It was there, on tolsun.oulu.fi, that the world's first IRC server was set up in August 1988. IRC did ...
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