Nokia’s collapse turned a sleepy town in Finland into an internet wonderland

Re:Nokia’s collapse turned a sleepy town in Finland into an ... by Sharlin on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @04:16AM (#21395533)

University of Oulu, incidentally, is where IRC was born in 1988.

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Re:Nokia’s collapse turned a sleepy town in Finland into an ... by bluedino on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @07:56AM (#21396679)

All the time I spent on x2ftp.oulu.fi finding DOS and game programming information...

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Re:Nokia’s collapse turned a sleepy town in Finland into an ... by jbverschoor on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @08:19AM (#21396855)

Same here :-)

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Re:Nokia’s collapse turned a sleepy town in Finland into an ... by dharma1 on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @05:37AM (#21395912)

Indeed! Wonder why Jarkko Oikarinen (and others) semi-abandoned the project. With a little bit of a makeover it could have rivalled Slack, Whatsapp etc

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Re:Nokia’s collapse turned a sleepy town in Finland into an ... by mxuribe on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @09:52AM (#21397712)

Well, there's the matrix protocol (and separate apps like Riot.im, Quaternion, pattle, etc.)...which does incorporate - at least at a high level - some similar concepts to IRC, though with modern adaptations like encryption, etc.

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Re:Nokia’s collapse turned a sleepy town in Finland into an ... by dharma1 on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @11:52AM (#21399054)

yep, love Matrix. It's the best open source project in the space. Just wonder why IRC was effectively abandoned

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