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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. 20 years ago I met my wife on IRC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Met my wife on DALnet's #England channel 20 years ago when I was in the UK and she was in the USA, we now live in the USA with our kids, that channel resulted in a lot of people we personally know getting married, so who needs Facebook and Tinder.