IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is an ancient Internet service that provides the ability to instantly send and receive short messages. The system text-only Internet Relay Chat was first developed in 1988 by a Finnish IT guy named Jarkko Oikarinen. His chat nickname was Wiz.
Oikarinen could not know at this time whether his creation would affect the lives of people around the world. Since then, in some cases, IRC has become one of the main communication tools of various groups on the Internet. 
In Greece, IRC (IRC) became known in the mid-90s when the Internet began to develop in our country.
One of the first (if not the first) owners of IRC server it was GRnet (Greek IRC Network). It was created in 1995 by 8 people with the aim of uniting all Greeks and continues to exist to this day.
To honor 30's IRC birthday, we'll describe how we discovered this service years ago.
Initially we noticed several things applications to connect to IRC. Today there are many IRC clients, but we will mention three main ones:
mIRC: http://www.mirc.com application with Windows GUI
X-Chat: http://www.xchat.org application with GUI for Windows and Linux and
BitchX: http://www.bitchx.org application with command line for Linux
Large available and popular servers (networks) at that time was the Efnet and links of. The second innovation at the time was that it had SSL connections.
We had to find out from the beginning how you could create your #mychannel channel, how you could lock it and how you could encrypt it with blowfish.
Later we learned to write scripts for linking the IRC channel to an FTP server, or to a Website.
The results were amazing. Each new post from www automatically appeared via a bot on the IRC channel.
But first we had to build the bot, put it on the channel and on the website or FTP server that we were interested in with Eggdrop. IRC bots are written with C uses Tcl as script language.
Then we had to make the bot smarter to be able to answer us with commands like: / msg botname latest
So after our chat experiments in the box provided by the above servers we decided to try our luck by installing our own irc server.
So at a Dutch server (CentOS) that we had from Leaseweb we installed the UnrealIRCd software.
It was our first irc server. Then of course we started adding things for more security, shutting doors and banning IPS at server level. The above was not at all pleasant, as the more people created channels on our server, the more were the cowards trying different.
Please note that IRC is also maliciously used. For example, an IRC channel can be used to control a botnet that performs DDoS attacks, and more.
All of the above, however, seems to have gone unmistakably with chat services like Slack, applications such as Skype and many others that are now in circulation.
The nostalgia for all the above comes along with the awareness that encryption has gone from our hands (at server level at least) and has passed to companies that have services and applications.
Happy Internet Relay Chat!
- IRC history from Greek Wikipedia
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