IRC of Internet chat celebrates its 30th birthday

" Internet Relay Chat (IRC) " realized in the 1980s as soon as possible a chat that allows clients to exchange text-based communication via a server celebrates its 30th anniversary in August 2018. It seems that it is loved and used by the few users all over the world that resonates with the technical thought of IRC even now at the heyday of the Internet.

History of IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
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Internet chat system IRC turns thirty | University of Oulu
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The IRC of the chat communication tool has the feature that it can communicate without depending on the terminal and OS. Because it has high customizability, it has the flexibility to access not only PCs, smart phones, but also game machines if desired.

IRC was born when Jarkko Oikarinen who worked at the Information Technology Faculty of Oulu University in Finland in the summer of 1988 wrote IRC client and server code. Oikarinen said that by extending BBS software managed by tolsun.oulu.fi, he tried to have use-net style news, real time discussion, BBS function. With the help of my friend Jyrki Kuoppala and Jukka Pihl, the first thing we started was the chat function. Oikarinen says "About the IRC tested on the" tolsun.oulu.fi "server," IRC's birthday was in August 1988. The exact date is unknown. "

Jyrki Kuoppala asked Mr. Oikarinen to release the code so that IRC could be used outside of Oulu University as soon as we prepared the server and later became "irc.cs.hut.fi". This was my first IRC network. Oikarinen also got IRC users at the University of Helsinki and University of Tampere and ran the IRC server. Oikarinen noticed that other universities also joined the IRC one after another and at this point that the remaining functions of BBS do not fit within the program.

In addition, the IRC network, which was built by volunteers from Denver University and Oregon State University who received the program from Mr. Vijay Subramaniam who used IRC for the first time other than Finnish, was connected to Finnish National Network Funet, and Scandinavian It was connected to the branch office Nordunet and finally IRC spread on the Internet in November 1988.

IRC gradually reduced the number of users with the spread of the Internet, and said that the most booming was from 2004 to 2005. However, even in August 2018, which celebrated its 30th birthday, users who use IRC remain firmly.

Learning computer science Atte Jauhiainen says he is communicating using IRC everyday. Although the content of the chat seems to be all about everyday topics such as lunch date and news of the day, "There are huge numbers of channels in IRC, you can easily make channels, such as events, hobbies, etc. A new student learning computer science will receive IRC training in the fall.I did not use IRC before entering university, but in the field of computer science IRC I can get used to Linux command line by using IRC, "as Jauhiainen says, IRC still seems to be used by many users.