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  2. title: IRC
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  4. == IRC
  5. IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a communications protocol that's been
  6. around for almost the same length of time as me. It's an open
  7. standard, simple to read and write at a protocol level, and has
  8. first class support for federation of servers.
  9. === WIP History of IRC
  10. * August 1988, first IRC server in use <<1>>
  11. * November 1988, international links established <<1>>
  12. * August 1990, EFNet splits from ANet <<1>> -- history?
  13. * December 1992, Undernet created <<1>> -- history?
  14. * May 1993, RFC published <<1>> -- better source
  15. * July 1994, Dalnet formed <<1>> -- history?
  16. * July 1996, IRCnet and EFnet split ("The Great Split") <<1>> -- history?
  17. * June 1998, IRCX <<3>>
  18. * 1998, Freenode (Open Project Network) started <<1>> -- history?
  19. * April 2000, RFC2812 <<4>>
  20. * 2002 - OPN becomes Freenode <<5>>
  21. ==== Sources
  22. [bibliography]
  23. - [[[1]]]: https://daniel.haxx.se/irchistory.html
  24. - [[[2]]]: http://www.irc.org/history_docs/jarkko.html
  25. - [[[3]]]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pfenning-irc-extensions-04
  26. - [[[4]]]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2812
  27. - [[[5]]]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openprojects