IRC usage has been declining steadily since 2003, losing 60% of its users (from 1 million to about 400,000 in 2012) and half of its channels (from half a million in 2003). == History== IRC was created by Jarkko Oikarinen in August 1988 to replace a program called MUT (MultiUser Talk) on a BBS called OuluBox at the University of Oulu in Finland, where he was working at the Department of Information Processing Science.
In November 1988, IRC had spread across the Internet and in the middle of 1989, there were some 40 servers worldwide. ===EFnet=== In August 1990, the first major disagreement took place in the IRC world.
In November 1988, IRC had spread across the Internet and in the middle of 1989, there were some 40 servers worldwide. ===EFnet=== In August 1990, the first major disagreement took place in the IRC world.
In November 1988, IRC had spread across the Internet and in the middle of 1989, there were some 40 servers worldwide. ===EFnet=== In August 1990, the first major disagreement took place in the IRC world.
, no major IRC networks have fully adopted the proposed standard. After its golden era during the 1990s and early 2000s (240,000 users on QuakeNet in 2004), IRC has seen a significant decline, losing around 60% of users between 2003 and 2012, with users moving to newer social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter, but also to open platforms like XMPP which was developed in 1999.
===Timeline=== Timeline of major servers: EFnet, 1990 to present Undernet, 1992 to present DALnet, 1994 to present freenode, 1995 to present IRCnet, 1996 to present QuakeNet, 1997 to present Open and Free Technology Community, 2001 to present Rizon, 2002 to present Libera Chat, 2021 to present ==Technical information== IRC is an open protocol that uses TCP and, optionally, TLS.
Once A-net disbanded, the name EFnet became meaningless, and once again it was the one and only IRC network. It is around that time that IRC was used to report on the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt throughout a media blackout.
October 1992 (it forked off the EFnet ircd version 2.8.10).
===Timeline=== Timeline of major servers: EFnet, 1990 to present Undernet, 1992 to present DALnet, 1994 to present freenode, 1995 to present IRCnet, 1996 to present QuakeNet, 1997 to present Open and Free Technology Community, 2001 to present Rizon, 2002 to present Libera Chat, 2021 to present ==Technical information== IRC is an open protocol that uses TCP and, optionally, TLS.
The first server list presented, from 15 February 1993, includes servers from USA, Canada, France, Croatia and Japan.
On 15 August, the new user count record was set to 57 users. In May 1993, RFC 1459 was published and details a simple protocol for client/server operation, channels, one-to-one and one-to-many conversations.
In fact, software implementation varied significantly from one network to the other, each network implementing their own policies and standards in their own code bases. ===DALnet fork=== During the summer of 1994, the Undernet was itself forked.
===Timeline=== Timeline of major servers: EFnet, 1990 to present Undernet, 1992 to present DALnet, 1994 to present freenode, 1995 to present IRCnet, 1996 to present QuakeNet, 1997 to present Open and Free Technology Community, 2001 to present Rizon, 2002 to present Libera Chat, 2021 to present ==Technical information== IRC is an open protocol that uses TCP and, optionally, TLS.
Much of DALnet's new functions were written in early 1995 by Brian "Morpher" Smith and allow users to own nicknames, control channels, send memos, and more. ===IRCnet fork=== In July 1996, after months of flame wars and discussions on the mailing list, there was yet another split due to disagreement in how the development of the ircd should evolve.
===Timeline=== Timeline of major servers: EFnet, 1990 to present Undernet, 1992 to present DALnet, 1994 to present freenode, 1995 to present IRCnet, 1996 to present QuakeNet, 1997 to present Open and Free Technology Community, 2001 to present Rizon, 2002 to present Libera Chat, 2021 to present ==Technical information== IRC is an open protocol that uses TCP and, optionally, TLS.
Much of DALnet's new functions were written in early 1995 by Brian "Morpher" Smith and allow users to own nicknames, control channels, send memos, and more. ===IRCnet fork=== In July 1996, after months of flame wars and discussions on the mailing list, there was yet another split due to disagreement in how the development of the ircd should evolve.
===Timeline=== Timeline of major servers: EFnet, 1990 to present Undernet, 1992 to present DALnet, 1994 to present freenode, 1995 to present IRCnet, 1996 to present QuakeNet, 1997 to present Open and Free Technology Community, 2001 to present Rizon, 2002 to present Libera Chat, 2021 to present ==Technical information== IRC is an open protocol that uses TCP and, optionally, TLS.
===Timeline=== Timeline of major servers: EFnet, 1990 to present Undernet, 1992 to present DALnet, 1994 to present freenode, 1995 to present IRCnet, 1996 to present QuakeNet, 1997 to present Open and Free Technology Community, 2001 to present Rizon, 2002 to present Libera Chat, 2021 to present ==Technical information== IRC is an open protocol that uses TCP and, optionally, TLS.
EFnet has since (as of August 1998) grown and passed the number of users it had then.
Virtually no clients and very few servers rely strictly on the above RFCs as a reference. Microsoft made an extension for IRC in 1998 via the proprietary IRCX.
, no major IRC networks have fully adopted the proposed standard. After its golden era during the 1990s and early 2000s (240,000 users on QuakeNet in 2004), IRC has seen a significant decline, losing around 60% of users between 2003 and 2012, with users moving to newer social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter, but also to open platforms like XMPP which was developed in 1999.
In the (northern) autumn of the year 2000, EFnet had some 50,000 users and IRCnet 70,000. ===Modern IRC=== IRC has changed much over its life on the Internet.
, no major IRC networks have fully adopted the proposed standard. After its golden era during the 1990s and early 2000s (240,000 users on QuakeNet in 2004), IRC has seen a significant decline, losing around 60% of users between 2003 and 2012, with users moving to newer social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter, but also to open platforms like XMPP which was developed in 1999.
===Timeline=== Timeline of major servers: EFnet, 1990 to present Undernet, 1992 to present DALnet, 1994 to present freenode, 1995 to present IRCnet, 1996 to present QuakeNet, 1997 to present Open and Free Technology Community, 2001 to present Rizon, 2002 to present Libera Chat, 2021 to present ==Technical information== IRC is an open protocol that uses TCP and, optionally, TLS.
===Timeline=== Timeline of major servers: EFnet, 1990 to present Undernet, 1992 to present DALnet, 1994 to present freenode, 1995 to present IRCnet, 1996 to present QuakeNet, 1997 to present Open and Free Technology Community, 2001 to present Rizon, 2002 to present Libera Chat, 2021 to present ==Technical information== IRC is an open protocol that uses TCP and, optionally, TLS.
IRC usage has been declining steadily since 2003, losing 60% of its users (from 1 million to about 400,000 in 2012) and half of its channels (from half a million in 2003). == History== IRC was created by Jarkko Oikarinen in August 1988 to replace a program called MUT (MultiUser Talk) on a BBS called OuluBox at the University of Oulu in Finland, where he was working at the Department of Information Processing Science.
, no major IRC networks have fully adopted the proposed standard. After its golden era during the 1990s and early 2000s (240,000 users on QuakeNet in 2004), IRC has seen a significant decline, losing around 60% of users between 2003 and 2012, with users moving to newer social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter, but also to open platforms like XMPP which was developed in 1999.
, no major IRC networks have fully adopted the proposed standard. After its golden era during the 1990s and early 2000s (240,000 users on QuakeNet in 2004), IRC has seen a significant decline, losing around 60% of users between 2003 and 2012, with users moving to newer social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter, but also to open platforms like XMPP which was developed in 1999.
As of April 2011, the top 100 IRC networks served more than half a million users at a time, with hundreds of thousands of channels operating on a total of roughly 1,500 servers out of roughly 3,200 servers worldwide.
IRC usage has been declining steadily since 2003, losing 60% of its users (from 1 million to about 400,000 in 2012) and half of its channels (from half a million in 2003). == History== IRC was created by Jarkko Oikarinen in August 1988 to replace a program called MUT (MultiUser Talk) on a BBS called OuluBox at the University of Oulu in Finland, where he was working at the Department of Information Processing Science.
, no major IRC networks have fully adopted the proposed standard. After its golden era during the 1990s and early 2000s (240,000 users on QuakeNet in 2004), IRC has seen a significant decline, losing around 60% of users between 2003 and 2012, with users moving to newer social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter, but also to open platforms like XMPP which was developed in 1999.
As of 2016, Freenode is the largest IRC network with around 90,000 users. The largest IRC networks have traditionally been grouped as the "Big Four"—a designation for networks that top the statistics.
===Timeline=== Timeline of major servers: EFnet, 1990 to present Undernet, 1992 to present DALnet, 1994 to present freenode, 1995 to present IRCnet, 1996 to present QuakeNet, 1997 to present Open and Free Technology Community, 2001 to present Rizon, 2002 to present Libera Chat, 2021 to present ==Technical information== IRC is an open protocol that uses TCP and, optionally, TLS.
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