You might not know it, but IRC predates most of the internet and directly influences it today
I grew up in the 2000s, so it might be a surprising statement when I say that much of my introduction to the internet, technology, and gaming came from Internet Relay Chat, also known as IRC. As a kid, I had no idea that IRC was already an incredibly important piece of internet history. It dates back to the 1980s, predating the World Wide Web itself, and was the brainchild of a Finnish student named Jarkko Oikarinen. As it turns out, real-time group chats were in existence years before web browsers and AOL existed, and decades before Discord, Slack, or WhatsApp.
I grew up in the 2000s, so it might be a surprising statement when I say that much of my introduction to the internet, technology, and gaming came from Internet Relay Chat, also known as IRC. As a kid, I had no idea that IRC was already an incredibly important piece of internet history. It dates back to the 1980s, predating the World Wide Web itself, and was the brainchild of a Finnish student named Jarkko Oikarinen. As it turns out, real-time group chats were in existence years before web browsers and AOL existed, and decades before Discord, Slack, or WhatsApp.
Emily Brown
Houston
Houston
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