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Jarkko Oikarinen

Jarkko Oikarinen is associated with the development of Bulletin-board systems, Usenet and Internet chat. Jarkko Oikarinen implemented IRC in 1988 from a BBS-chat context; it grew into interconnected server networks.

Period
1988
Known for
Bulletin-board systems, Usenet and Internet chat
Historical contribution

What Oikarinen contributed

Jarkko Oikarinen implemented IRC in 1988 from a BBS-chat context; it grew into interconnected server networks.

Why it mattered

Creates shared many-to-many communication spaces in which participants can post persistent messages or converse synchronously before mainstream Web and social platforms.

Connected topics

Where this fits in ITEM

Bulletin-board systems, Usenet and Internet chat
Evidence

Sources and further reading

  1. IRC History

    Jarkko Oikarinen

    Open source ↗

  2. RFC 1459: Internet Relay Chat Protocol, May 1993

    Jarkko Oikarinen, Darren Reed · 1993

    Open source ↗