I wish I remembered which distribution it was, but I’m betting it was UNIX.
I also remember using the Linux command line to connect to IRC chat room servers via Telnet. From there you selected which server you wanted to connect to and which channel or rooms you wanted to join. You could download mIRC on your computer and it would connect you via dial-up modem to the chat servers which were located all over the world. Well, let’s continue with some more history…īack in the late 90s, you connected to IRC channels with simple programs like mIRC. According to Wikipedia, after 2003 the IRC chats lost 60 percent of their users. Little by little people also began to move to Yahoo! and AOL chat rooms until the popularity of the IRC began to fade. I’ve not visited a channel in about 18 years, I guess because making new Internet friends became easier with the programs using a graphical user interface that came along in the late 90s - ICQ is one for example. It’s my understanding that the IRC (Internet Replay Chat) still exists.
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