Back to the roots — IRC

🍸 Landed here by accident? This is the story of why I went back to IRC after eighteen years — and how grappa , the client I wrote to stay there, came out of it. Click here to go back to 1995 → In 1988 a Finn named Jarkko Oikarinen, with the tools and the technology of the day, invented Internet Relay Chat, IRC: a spare yet intricate system that became the first &ldquo;chat&rdquo; on the internet…