•You must have special chat client software and connect
to an IRC server to use Internet Relay Chat.
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•Early UNIX computers included a program called Talk that allowed users to exchange
short text messages.
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•In 1988, Jarkko Oikarinen wrote Internet Relay Chat
(IRC).
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extended the capabilities of the Talk program to multi-user.
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•IRC uses a client-server network model: IRC servers are connected through the internet to form an IRC
network.
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•Individual chat participants use IRC clients that connect to the servers in the network.
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