Trivia: Before social networks, people connected via IRC, which stands for what?
Indirect Response Communication
Internal Research Conferencing
Internet Relay Chat
Instant Real Conversation
The correct answer is Internet Relay Chat
So why is this answer correct? : In the summer of 1988, Jarkko Oikarinen made the first-ever Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client and server at the University of Oulu, Finland. His code creation allowed internet users to send short text messages to each other in chat rooms hosted on servers. Adoption of the new internet protocol was slow but steady, and eventually IRC servers had hundreds of thousands of users discussing everything from sports to music to trivia. While most IRC servers are defunct now, their legacy lives on in modern text messaging and social networking.