Internet Citizen's Band
Internet Citizen 's Band (better known as ICB ) denotes one of the first Internet chat programs. It was released in the spring of 1989 for the first time.
History
The first version of ICB consisted of a program called " Forumnet " or " fn", and was written by Sean Casey Carrick, an employee of the University of Kentucky. It was widely read at various universities, including the University of Kentucky, Georgia Tech, MIT, University of New Mexico, Stanford University, Mills College, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Berkeley. Fn, which was based on a written Casey MUD software, made known to both the log as well as the client software.
Fn was used after the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 as a real-time communication, because the internet connection in the hard-hit Santa Cruz was available more quickly than the telephone network. For various reasons, the University of Kentucky switched from the server Forumnet in March 1991. However, within two months, this the Fn user John Atwood Devries to program by reverse engineering the client a server and make it accessible to the community. He called this his version, International CB or ICB abbreviated. This server, which up to the client software nothing with the original Forumnet server had together, formed the basis for many other ICB server. The source code of the server was between 1995 and 2000 by Jon Luini and Michel Hoche - Mong completely revised in order to improve the stability and functionality of the server. The server can be still of the ICB site relate ( last version 1.2b from the year 2000).
The ICB network still exists, through its dedicated user community.
Clients are available for all major operating systems, including UNIX, Linux, Windows, and Macintosh. In addition, clients were implemented, among others, in the following programming languages : C, C , Perl, Java, and Emacs Lisp.
Functions
ICB dominated many features that now come as standard with chat programs, such as chat rooms, private messages, and the registration of their own nicknames. Furthermore, support most client Tcl scripts.
Restrictions
The lack of multi-server shared- groups support the number of users has always been limited, in contrast to the more popular chat programs.
ICB does not support file transfer and multimedia features.