HiRC

IRC was born during summer 1988 when Jarkko "WiZ" Oikarinen wrote the first IRC client and server at the University of Oulu, Finland (where he was working at the Department of Information Processing Science).

In the middle of 1989, there were some 40 servers worldwide.

Some from the most known Nets are:

EFnet (In August 1990)

UnderNet (Created in USA October 1992)

DALnet (Created during the summer 1994)

GRnet (Created in1994 and the first services added in 1997)