The Quiz: Before social networks, people connected via IRC, which stands for what?
Instant Real Conversation
Indirect Response Communication
Internet Relay Chat
Internal Research Conferencing
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 that could be 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.
The correct answer to this quiz is Internet Relay Chat.