Beyond that, it's just not as "shiny" or "usable" as more modern alternatives. The most commonly mentioned facets of IRC's reputation is that it is arcane and opaque to learn, with an online presence which is neither logged nor persistent by default. Software doesn't reach such a venerable age without developing a reputation. Its networks have forked-and then forked again-over issues of implementation and community, yet still it persists as a robust realtime chat option today. Through all of the realtime chat churn, however, the venerable IRC continues to perservere.Ĭreated in 1988 by Jarkko Oikarinen (a year before Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web), Internet Relay Chat (aka IRC) has had a sometimes tumultuous history. ICQ, AOL | Yahoo! | Microsoft Messengers, Google Talk-and aggregators for them such as Meebo-dominated the online chat scene throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. MUDs (and MUSHes and MUCKs), BBSes, and the talk command allowed real- (or near real-) time chat as early as 1980. Yet this is an example of "everything old is new again." Realtime chat has been a cornerstone of online life since before the invention of the World Wide Web. These tools help support collaboration and communication among distributed team members as well as enable the building and management of diverse communities. From WhatsApp and SnapChat on mobile to Mattermost, Telegram, and Slack (among others) on all platforms, real time text communication is hot. Recent years have shown a resurgence in online chat technology.
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