IRCnet

The IRCnet is one of the largest IRC networks in the world. There is an average of 65,000 users per day visited (as of 2011 ).

The IRCnet was a European cleavage from EFnet after a disagreement over the control of the powers of the system operators had broken out in July 1996. In the rules of the IRCnets the power of the operators ( irc - ops ) is clearly defined. This scheme rejected many of the American EFnet server.

The idea of ​​an independent network smoldered for some time, when an American IRC hub, which represented the main connection to the European IRC servers, interrupting the connection without warning. Then a group of European administrators declared themselves to be independent. All European EFnet server switched to IRCnet, and later still the EFnet server from Japan and Australia added.

The network also contains the oldest IRC server in the world at all. It was decided that the network should take the name IRCnet. Prior to this name was commonly used for all IRC networks. Before the name has been set, the network under "European EFnet " was known.

History of the IRCnet

The IRCnet the underlying IRC protocol (Internet Relay Chat ) based on one of Jarkko Oikarinens originally for the bulletin board system (BBS ) developed chat extension. The first IRC server tolsun.oulu.fi, while 1988 was at the University of Oulu, Finland. The first IRC network created by the merger of the IRC server at the University of Oulu to those of the universities of Helsinki and Tampere, later with the servers of the University of Denver and Oregon.

1989, there were already more than 40 world networked with each other IRC server. In 1990, the network was divided into the EFnet and the (unsuccessful ) A- Net. After some minor splits it in 1996 finally to the Big Split, as the European part of the EFnet as well as several non-European server from the server composite and separated together a brief break in the IRCnet. It soon surpassed the number of users of IRCnet far EFnet of the " big brother".