Re: #vwscirocco

[drew <drew@dyermaker.cs.uoguelph.ca>]

What about the old 'relay' on BitNet (CaNet for us Canucks)?  It was in
some ways a predecessor to IRC.

I can't belive I just said that.  I'm really not THAT old...!  Really!

Drew

On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Gary Huff wrote:

> No, there was talk though :D write came around then with the early AT&T
> UNIX release, didn't it? You could at least talk to people that populate
> multiuser machines. The concept of IRC didn't exist until 1989 when a
> crazy finnish dude RFC'd it. peace,
> 	-Gary Huff
> 
> "Young, Patrick" wrote:
> > 
> > > I have been on irc since humm let see, the opening of datapac
> > > to the public
> > > (yeah the internet is that old people) in 1979, so I don't
> > > take offence to
> > > anything on IRC (GRIN)
> > 
> > While I applaud you for being on so long (I've been on the internet, and
> > it's predecessors such as ARPAnet, since 1983), I have one small problem
> > with the above statement.
> > 
> > IRC did not exist in 1979.  There were some other things, BITnet relay for
> > instance, but that didn't get it's start until late 1984, and early 1985.
> > BITnet relay chat also looked nothing like irc in it's current guise looks.
> > BBS's and such filled in the chat need before that.
> > 
> > Ahh history, how I love it so.  :-)
> > 
> > Cheers!
> > -Pat
> > 
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