# Internet chat system IRC turns thirty | University of Oulu

<http://www.oulu.fi/university/node/54247>

- Host: [oulu.fi](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/oulu.fi/)
- Saved: August 28, 2018 (2018-08-29T02:02:00Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/b5b9a75e3da1/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/b5b9a75e3da1.json

## What Jamie wrote

I first logged onto IRC via EFnet in 1991. I had no idea it was only created 3 years prior. IRC was one of my first introductions to the world of the Internet and chatting with people around the globe. I called #macintosh and #root home, and had ChanOps in both of them. It was such a fun time back then. I love that IRC is still kicking. It’s the IndieWeb to Slack.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT69: Weekly Thing #69 / Sep 1, 2018](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/69/), Notable Links 📌

## Saved the same week

- [littleBits: Award-winning electronic building blocks for creating inventions large and small](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/34e8a5819083/) (littlebits.com, August 28, 2018)
- [Mass shootings since Sandy Hook, in one map](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/7143755acd00/) (vox.com, August 28, 2018)
- [The original demo of Imagine by John Lennon](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/409d86a49f2f/) (kottke.org, August 28, 2018)
- [Stop Using WhatsApp If You Care About Your Privacy](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/06b815e11a32/) (lifehacker.com, August 28, 2018)
- [How Facebook, Apple and Microsoft are contributing to an openly licensed map of the world – The ODI](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/b3eb88614c29/) (theodi.org, August 28, 2018)

## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.oulu.fi/university/node/54247