![]() IRC’s efficiency was also what Twitter was aiming for in the beginning, Chris Messina-a developer credited with introducing the hashtag to Twitter (paywall)-told Quartz. “We realized we didn’t want to work at a company without realtime multiuser chat.” Since Slack’s debut in February, it has made $1.5 million in revenue and raised $60 in venture capital, according to Wired, and powers internal communication at the likes of HBO, eBay, and the Wall Street Journal (as well as Quartz). “When we shut the game down we were thinking about what we could do next,” Cal Henderson, a co-founder and vice president of engineering at Slack, told Quartz. As Mat Honan recently wrote in Wired, the game failed, but the chatroom took off. Slack was born from an IRC chatroom-one its developers were using when they were creating a game called Glitch. ![]() But as people’s email inboxes grow ever more unmanageable, there’s been growing demand for chat as a simpler, cleaner form of communication. Slack, a startup currently getting a lot of love from the tech community, is essentially an updated IRC for less-geeky users. The configuration to start using it is arcane. And while it’s not a mass phenomenon, it’s still considerable: At any one time, half a million or more users are chatting on it.īecause IRC is so old, it isn’t ideal for most people. And because it’s been around so long, lots of tools have been developed on top of it, says Andy “Termie” Smith, a developer who’s worked at Google, Rackspace, Jaiku and Openstack. It was and remains popular with web developers. IRC doesn’t require much bandwidth, and is very reliable. MIRC CHAT INDIA CODEThe code was released, and other servers were set up. ![]() Jarkko Oikarinen wrote the first IRC client and set up the first server at the University of Oulu in Finland in 1988. IRC is a virtual chatroom that users worldwide can join. It was born in 1988, it predates the web, and it’s called Internet Relay Chat-IRC. A new generation of chat software-such as Slack and Hipchat, which businesses use for internal communication, and GroupMe, one of the first apps to make group text messaging possible-are based on its principles. Twitter’s began there so did its use of # to denote topics. ![]()
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