05.01.2009 | 21:19
Skraćenica od Internet Relayed Chat. Wikipedia ima prilično detaljan članak na temu IRC-a, no tebi će vjerojatno biti dovoljno ovo:
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet chat or synchronous conferencing. It is mainly designed for group communication in discussion forums called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication via private message, as well as chat and data transfers via Direct Client-to-Client.
IRC was created by Jarkko Oikarinen in late August 1988 to replace a program called MUT (MultiUser talk) on a BBS called OuluBox in Finland. Oikarinen found inspiration in a chat system known as Bitnet Relay, which operated on the BITNET.[citation needed]
IRC was used to report on the Soviet coup attempt of 1991 throughout a media blackout.[1] It was previously used in a similar fashion during the Iraqi invasion. Logs of these events, and other events, are kept in the ibiblio archive.[2]
Dakle, to je preteča današnjih iChat-a, Skypea, ICQ-a, MSN-a i sl, ali, naravno, isključivo u formi tekstualne komunikacije.
Radilo se po posebnom protokolu i posebnim klijentskim programima. Scena postoji i dan-danas, ali je, u odnosu na gužvu koja je vladala na IRC kanalima sredinom devedesetih, danas to već prilično pust dio cyber-svijeta...