Social Media & Online Communities · Recorded milestone
Internet Relay Chat
Recorded year1988
Jarkko Oikarinen's IRC in Finland gives the internet open real-time chat channels, used for live news in the 1991 Gulf War.
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- Online chat roomRecorded · 1973enables
- TCP/IPRecorded · 1974enables
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.