

In July 1990, IRC averaged at 12 users on 38 servers. IrcII was released 1989 by Michael Sandrof. In the middle of 1989, there were some 40 servers worldwide. In November 1988, IRC had spread across the Internet.

IRC then grew larger and got used on the entire Finnish national network - Funet - and then connected to Nordunet, the Scandinavian branch of the Internet. They had got an IRC network running (they had got the program from one of Jarkko's friends, Vijay Subramaniam - the first non-Finnish person to use IRC) and wanted to connect to the Finnish network. Jarkko got in touch with guys at the University of Denver and Oregon State University. At this time Jarkko realized that the rest of the BBS features probably wouldn't fit in his program! Markku Järvinen helped improving the client. Jarkko got some friends at the Helsinki and Tampere Universities to start running IRC servers when his number of users increased.
#Is mirc no longer free cracker
(At that time Jyrki was still the best cracker I knew.)" This was the first "irc network".Īri Lemmke's own words: "At the same time Jyrki installed ircd, I was at the same room and had nothing to do, so I decided to crack into tolsun (the irc server Sun machine at Oulu), and naturally -) got in through a new hole in sendmail.
#Is mirc no longer free code
Jyrki Kuoppala pushed Jarkko to ask Oulu University to free the IRC code so that it also could be run outside of Oulu, and after they finally got it released, Jyrki Kuoppala immediately installed a server (which later became irc.cs.hut.fi). The exact date is unknown, at the end of the month anyways.". It was initially tested on a single machine, and according to the words from Jarkko himself "The birthday of IRC was in August 1988. The first part he implemented was the chat part, which he did with borrowed parts written by his friends Jyrki Kuoppala and Jukka Pihl.
#Is mirc no longer free software
Jarkko intended to extend the BBS software he administrated at, to allow news the usenet style, real time discussions and similar BBS features. IRC was born during summer 1988 when Jarkko "WiZ" Oikarinen wrote the first IRC client and server at the University of Oulu, Finland (where he was working at the Department of Information Processing Science). Please keep Daniel Stenberg credited as author. If you have additional information, have found errors in my text or just feel like commenting anything, email me, submit an issue or post a pull-request!įeel free to link to this page or host it elsewhere. I've done my very best to gather information from as many sources as possible to verify facts, stories and dates.
