EFnet

This is an EFnet IRC network. It was part of the original first IRC network that was created in August 1988. EFnet counts despite various spin-offs today with an average of 40,000 visitors per day, is still one of the largest IRC networks.

History

The birth of the IRC was in August 1988 - the exact birthday is loud Jarkko Oikarinen, the recognized spiritual father of the IRC unknown. Originally, the purpose of the network to enable communication between the Finnish universities. But also grew faster than expected interest outside Finland, part of a global chat system to be. Just two years later, in July 1990, 38 servers on the first IRC network were involved.

In August 1990, a division of the founders Community took place; some servers then trained the Anarchy NET ( Anet ). It was also the still valid name for the EFnet since an unpopular server named eris.berkeley.edu by this division left the IRC network, whereupon the remaining portion called Eris Free Net. However, the largest and most famous cleavage took place in July 1996: Due to technical differences, the then European part of the network split off and formed henceforth the IRCnet, while the American part henceforth continued to exist as EFnet. Trigger of that received as The Great Split in the IRC History separation was an open dispute on technical measures to combat so-called Nick Collisions - EFnet preferred a method called TS (Time Stamp ), while IRCnet sat on Nick delay. They also discussed the rights of IRC operators, and administrators. The EFnet supported here relatively free policies, while the representatives of the IRCnet ROCHE strict regimentation.

Ultimately, you could not agree on what led to the final separation of the two networks. However, today, both IRCnet and EFnet with the most important and largest IRC networks at all.

EFnet was and is still considered one of the most purist IRC networks: In contrast to the QuakeNet or DALnet there is no way, nicknames or channels to register. It was not until 2001, a service called CHANFIX was introduced, which allows to restore channels without operators. This is done using an algorithm that automatically starts in case of loss of all Ops on the basis of an internal point table with the regular operator again.

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