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The History of the Rise and Decline of the Irc, the First Place to Hold the "Great Global Conversation" in Real Time

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This video by The Serial Port is a good summary of the history of the IRC, something that originally existed outside the Web, inspired by the Bitnet academic network in 1981. There it was experimented with the first chat systems for people connected to the same server; the idea would be extended to several servers forming a network. By that time there was already the CompuServe CB Simulator, a more closed payment service. Bitnet chat was not exe…
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This video by The Serial Port is a good summary of the history of the IRC, something that originally existed outside the Web, inspired by the Bitnet academic network in 1981. There it was experimented with the first chat systems for people connected to the same server; the idea would be extended to several servers forming a network. By that time there was already the CompuServe CB Simulator, a more closed payment service. Bitnet chat was not exe…

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microsiervos.com broke the news in on Monday, September 15, 2025.
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