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>3. Brief History of IRC</H1
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>The first IRC daemon was written in the summer of 1998 by Jarkko
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"WiZ" Oikarinen of the University of Oulu, Finland. Originally intended
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as a BBS-style replacement for Talk, IRC quickly spread; first through
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Scandinavian, and then throughout the rest of the world. Within a year
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there were over 40 servers linked up.</P
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>At this stage there was only one network, and so a name
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unnecessary - it was simply 'IRC'; but as the size of the network grew,
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disagreements began to form. IRC was a pretty chaotic medium with
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netsplits, nick collisions, and channel takeovers all commonplace; and
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it was inevitable that at some stage users would split off to form their
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own networks.</P
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>One of the first major splits was in 1992, when Wildthang created
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the Undernet network. Originally intended as a test network, Undernet
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quickly grew, gaining a reputation as a friendly network due to it's
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introduction of services to protect users and channels.</P
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>Two years later, Undernet itself forked, the new networking
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becoming DALnet. DALnet's founder, dalvenjah, took Undernet's concept of
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services to a new level, introducing support for nick registration,
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G-lines, and a host of other features.</P
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>Meanwhile on IRCnet (as the original IRC network was now known),
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feelings where running high. IRCnet was opposed to the concept of
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channel/nick 'ownership' which Undernet and DALnet had introduced, but
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clearly something had to be done about the constant channel takeovers
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that were occuring. Two alternative ideas were proposed: nick/channel
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delay, and timestamping (see http://www.irc-help.org for information),
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but there was bitter dispute over which to implement.</P
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>In July of 1996, IRCnet split, with most of the North American
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servers leaving to form EFnet, leaving IRCnet as a mostly European
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network.</P
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>Since then, hundreds of other smaller networks have formed, most
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using modified versions of either DALnet, EFnet, IRCnet, or Undernet's
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ircd.</P
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