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IRC History
Who invented Internet Relay Chat? IRC was invented by Jarkko Oikarinen for use on the Internet in 1988. However, there has also been an interesting history to the development of distributed chat communications that goes back to the early 1970's. The following subsections provide more information: Other resources. The BITNET network also provided a real-time chat system called Relay. |