A Decade of IRC: Family and Friends Forever
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From: cpwN...@undernet.org (Colin Walker)
Newsgroups: alt.irc,alt.irc.questions,alt.irc.dalnet,alt.irc.undernet,alt.irc.announce,alt.irc.efnet,alt.irc.mirc,alt.mirc
Subject: A Decade of IRC: Family and Friends Forever
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 05:40:07 GMT
The Undernet Promotions team is pleased to announce a decade
retrospect on the history of IRC called "A Decade of IRC: Family and
Friends Forever". The event will be held on August 29th, 1998 at
3:30pm EDT in #liveevents on the Undernet IRC Network.
For this event, we have invited people who have made a difference in
IRC over its 10 years in existence:
Jarkko Oikarinen (WiZ) - Creator of IRC in 1988 and maintainer through
1991.
Khaled Mardam-Bey - Creator and maintainer of the most popular Windows
client, mIRC.
David Low (Super) - Former Channel Service coordinator / Senior
Channel Service admin.
Robin Thellend (SeKs) - Creator of X/W and Channel Service admin.
Carlo Wood (Run) - IRCu maintainer and Coder-Com coordinator.
Dafydd James (DuffJ) - DALnet coding and services coordinator
Darren Reed (Avalon) - IRC developer and maintainer since the
beginning.
Helen Rose (Trillian) - Development team coordinator, mailing list
maintainer, documents maintainer for several years.
We hope you can make it to this exciting and informative event! If
you have any questions, please email LiveE...@Undernet.org. If you
are unable to make it to the event, but would like to read logs of
this historical occasion, point your browser to
http://www.user-com.undernet.org/promotions/ one week after the event.
To get on the Undernet, load your IRC chat client and type /server
us.undernet.org if you're in the United States, /server
eu.undernet.org if you're in Europe, and /server
auckland.nz.undernet.org if you're in New Zealand. Be sure to arrive
early, as this event is likely to draw thousands of people.
Hope to see you there!
- -Colin Walker
Promotions Coordinator
Undernet User Committee
c...@undernet.org / LiveE...@undernet.org
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