I went to a LAN cafe, the likes of which are long gone from most parts of the world, with my dad. The first time I went online was 19 years ago. mIRC, the most popular IRC client - still available today, if you’re feeling nostalgic. Oikarinen developed the venerable text-only solution in 1988 - and the world never looked back. In the late 1980s, a Finnish computer scientist by the name of Jarkko Oikarinen had a really interesting idea: what if, using this thing called internet, people could write real-time messages to each other? Sure, we take that for granted nowadays, and it even sounds rudimentary (no video? no sound?), but back in the day, it was amazing.
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