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	Internet Relay Chat
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		history
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<p>This is miscellaneous historical information and files related to and about IRC. Files are reproduced here where possible and links are provided back to the original sources.</p>

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<h2>Personal Accounts</h2>

<p>These are accounts by people about bits of IRC history.</p>

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		<h3>
			<a href="./accounts/irc-history.html">
				IRC History
				<span class="authorsub">Jarkko Oikarinen</span>
			</a>
		</h3>
	</div>
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	<div class="name">
		<h3>
			<a href="./accounts/the-great-split.html">
				The Great Split
				<span class="authorsub">Vegard Engen</span>
			</a>
		</h3>
	</div>
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	<div class="name">
		<h3>
			<a href="./accounts/brief-history-of-the-gb-channel.html">
				Michael Lawrie's brief history of the #gb channel
				<span class="authorsub">Michael Lawrie</span>
			</a>
		</h3>
	</div>
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	<div class="name">
		<h3>
			<a href="./accounts/creating-xdcc.html">
				Creating XDCC (or Xabi DCC)
				<span class="authorsub">Xabi</span>
			</a>
		</h3>
	</div>
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	<div class="name">
		<h3>
			<a href="./accounts/ircjunkie-interview.html">
				IRC-Junkie interview with Jarkko Oikarinen
				<span class="authorsub">IRC-Junkie + Jarkko Oikarinen</span>
			</a>
		</h3>
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<h2>Protocol Discussion / Documentation</h2>

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	<div class="name">
		<h3>
			<a href="./protocol/ts-delay.html">
				TS  - Delay Comparison
				<span class="authorsub">Christophe Kalt</span>
			</a>
		</h3>
	</div>
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<h2>Files</h2>

<div class="link-block">
	<div class="name">
		<h3>
			<a href="./textfiles/alt-irc-faq.html">
				alt-irc-faq
				<span class="authorsub">hrose</span>
			</a>
		</h3>
	</div>
</div>

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	<div class="name">
		<h3>
			<a href="./textfiles/tao-of-irc.html">
				The Tao of Internet Relay Chat
				<span class="authorsub">Ove Ruben R. Olsen</span>
			</a>
		</h3>
	</div>
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	<div class="name">
		<h3>
			<a href="./textfiles/rules-for-irc-networking.html">
				Rules for IRC networking
				<span class="authorsub">#EU-Opers</span>
			</a>
		</h3>
	</div>
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