IRCnet
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| IRC networks |
| QuakeNet |
| Undernet |
| IRCnet |
| EFnet |
| Aitvaras |
| AustNet |
| DALnet |
| Enter The Game |
| Freenode |
| GameSurge |
| irchighway |
| IRC-Hispano |
| LinkNet |
| Phishy |
| PTnet |
| rizon |
| UniBG |
| Voila |
IRCnet is one of the largest IRC networks in the world, one of the so-called "Big Four." It currently has more than a hundred thousand users.
IRCnet was formed as a European fork of EFnet after a policy disagreement in July 1996 about how much power system operators should have. IRCnet formed with the basis that there should be a set of rules defining what sysops could and could not do. This viewpoint was opposed by many of the US-based EFnet servers.
A rumor has persisted for some time that IRCNet got its official start when a major US EFNet hub disconnected the link to the European servers without warning, resulting in a group of European admins declaring their independence. All the European EFnet servers joined IRCNet and they were later joined by the EFnet servers in Japan and Australia.
As the new network included the world's first IRC server (tolsun.oulu.fi), they decided to adopt the name IRCnet which up to that time had been used as a generic name for an IRC network. Prior to this name they were known as the "European EFnet".
External links
- IRCnet.info (http://www.ircnet.info/)
- IRCnet server list (http://www.ircnet.info/?p=5)
- http://irc.tu-ilmenau.de/all_servers/ extensive IRCnet server list
- http://pasky.ukeer.de/ IRCnet server mapde:IRCNet