IRC, or Internet Relay Chat, is one of the oldest real-time Internet communication systems. It was created in 1988 by Jarkko Oikarinen, a Finnish developer working at the University of Oulu. Oikarinen developed IRC to replace an existing communications program called MUT (MultiUser Talk) on the university’s BBS (Bulletin Board System) called OuluBox.
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