User talk:Tknight221985

IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a type of real-time internet text messaging. It was Invented by Jarkko Oikarinen in 1988 to replace another program called MUT (MultiUser Talk). It was used to report during two seperate events 1991 Soviet coup d'e'etat attemept during a media blackout and during the Gulf War. The IRC software is availible for almost every computer system that supports TCP and IP networks. The challenges of using this network is the issues with scalability, and not having many unique identification user names there are promblems with nickname collisions. Some of the issues have been resolved in the Modern IRC.