History of IRC

	Revision 14 . . (edit) December 11, 2001 2:14 pm by GregLindahl
	Revision 13 . . December 11, 2001 2:14 pm by GregLindahl [B1FF RULEZ, DOOD]
	Revision 12 . . December 9, 2001 10:27 am by GregLindahl [bots, IRC's role in early DoS]
	Revision 11 . . December 8, 2001 11:00 am by Eloquence
	Revision 10 . . December 6, 2001 11:49 am by GregLindahl [Jarkko's nickname...]
	Revision 9 . . December 5, 2001 12:38 am by Arcade [* Re-editing of a paragraph, and addition of 'takeover' subcategory.]
	Revision 8 . . (edit) December 5, 2001 12:06 am by Arcade [*long live caching .. (!) TPC -> TCP _again_ :-)]
	Revision 7 . . (edit) December 4, 2001 11:59 pm by Arcade [*Layout edit.]
	Revision 6 . . (edit) December 4, 2001 11:14 pm by Arcade [*TPC should be TCP]
	Revision 5 . . December 4, 2001 10:21 pm by Taw [plaintext]
	Revision 4 . . (edit) December 4, 2001 10:11 pm by Arcade [*Corrected link to existing Bitnet article.]
	Revision 3 . . December 4, 2001 9:35 pm by Arcade [*Big update, subcategories for irc networks and clients created.]
	Revision 2 . . October 20, 2001 9:47 am by Greg Lindahl

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IRC (Internet Relay Chat) was created by Jarkko Oikarinen (WiZ?) in August 1988. It was first written to replace a program called MUT (MultiUser? Talk) on a BBS called OuluBox? in Finland. Jarkko Oikarinen found inspiration in [Bitnet Relay Chat]? which operated on the Bitnet network.

IRC (Internet Relay Chat) was created by Jarkko Oikarinen (WiZ?) in August 1988. It was first written to replace a program called MUT (MultiUser? Talk) on a BBS called OuluBox? in Finland. Jarkko Oikarinen found inspiration in [Bitnet Relay Chat]? which operated on the Bitnet network. Humorously enough, the famous "idiot user" B1FF?, who was allegedly a BITNET user, was actually a well known IRC operator.