The History and Continued Use of IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
By
rickcarlino
The bagel they save for the regulars. Don't skim, savour.
Summary
The article discusses IRC (Internet Relay Chat), a real-time chat protocol invented in the late 1980s. Despite its age, IRC remains actively developed and widely used by hundreds of thousands of people daily.
Key quotes
· 2 pulledIRC stands for Internet Relay Chat. Invented in the late 1980s, it's one of the oldest and most popular realtime chat protocols.
Despite being over 30 years old, it's still actively developed, and hundreds of thousands of people still use it to chat every day.
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