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