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Daniel Stenberg's long-running IRC history traces Internet Relay Chat from Jarkko Oikarinen's first server in 1988 through early networks, splits, RFC 1459, Undernet, DALnet, and the social problems that shaped the protocol.
Floppy.museum is served from obsolete PC hardware running MS-DOS and a bootable floppy, squeezing a website, web server, FTP, IRC, networking, DESQView, and retro-media documentation into an intentionally absurd system.
Dead Internet Theory: In 2021, a change in Freenode's ownership split its volunteer staff and pushed hundreds of free-software projects onto the new Libera.Chat network. This is what triggered the split, what moved, and what changed when project channels changed homes.