It’s clear that overall IRC usage, both in terms of users as well as channels, has been in steady decline for many years. We took a look at the numbers to see just how bad it is for IRC. For almost whatever you’d like to discuss or get help with, there’s been an IRC network and channel that would serve your interests.īut since the arrival of the new century, IRC has dropped in popularity, with users moving to other forms of communication like the web and social media. Since then, IRC has served as an invaluable way of communicating for scores of users around the world. While working on the updated chat system he also wanted to allow participants from the Internet who didn’t need to be logged in to OuluBox to participate in chat. Oikarinen says that he created IRC during three to four months in 1988 when he was a summer intern at the University of Oulu in Finland.Īt the time, Oikarinen was maintaining a local BBS ( Bulletin Board System) called OuluBox and the chat system there needed refreshing. We connected with Jarkko Oikarinen, the creator of IRC, who works at Google in Sweden, and he told us the story of how IRC was born. We have talked to the creator of IRC, and others, about why the once so widely used technology has seemingly fallen out of favor with so many users. No real mystery.IRC ( Internet Relay Chat) has been around since 1988, which makes it ancient in Internet terms.Īnd although it’s still used by hundreds of thousands of users around the world, IRC has seen a dramatic downturn in usage. What counts is marketing and market share. Skype really fsked themselves up but since it is Microsoft you will still have to use it.
So to answer your question: there really isn't any big technical merit between them. I got the client to switch to WebEx for that call but who knows what the condition of their own systems are at this point. The only time I pushed back on using something is there was one from Asia that had a bad reputation for installing malware. I think the Zimbra mail server (VMWare) also offers "collaboration" features that host chatrooms and IP calls. To make matters worse many of the "your business in the cloud" type operations like Zoho try to get in the action as well. If you ask any engineer on the call why they use it they just shrug and say "that's what our company uses." So if you want to be plugged into the real-time communications of that company or group, you have to use it.īut that isn't really different from other software - on this Mac I am typing with I also have to have Skype, GoTo Meeting, WebEx, Zoom, and a few others I forget the names of until someone calls a meeting. It isn't just Slack, but over the past several years I got involved with companies and standards-setting bodies that use it. Unfortunately if you work on outgoing business you end up using a lot of different communication utilities.
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