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IRC Turns 30 (www.oulu.fi)

Posted by msmash on from the never-gonna-give-you-up dept.

IRC (Internet Relay Chat) was born at the Department of Information Processing Science of the University of Oulu 30 years ago. Taking some time out of his summer job, Jarkko Oikarinen developed the internet chat system. For the last several years, Oikarinen has been working at Google, overseeing the development of several communication services. Though several mainstream services have ended support for IRC over the years, the system is still in existence and used by many.

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  1. EFnet is still dying! by AndroSyn · · Score: 3, Funny

    Netcraft hasn't confirmed it yet, but EFnet is still dying.

  2. For those not familiar with IRC... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...here's a highly technical description of the software:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2rGTXHvPCQ

  3. Re: IRC and Usenet are why we don't need Facebook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Actually, IRC is useless, a waste of time, and worse for people than even Skynet.

  4. Congrats! by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 4, Funny

    /me slaps Whipslash with a wet trout

    --
    #DeleteChrome
  5. Best feature by religionofpeas · · Score: 4, Funny

    IRC's best feature was the automatic translation of passwords to a bunch of asterisks.

    1. Re:Best feature by SantiagoMcRib · · Score: 3, Funny

      What did you say? All I see is *******