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IRC

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IRC has appeared in 10 articles since 2018-12. Coverage peaked in 2025Q1 with 1 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Slack, Discord, Skype, Twitter.

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Coverage Timeline

2023-12-17
The Verge 3 related

Adam Mosseri details Threads' fediverse plans, including following non-Threads accounts, showing replies from other platforms, and follower portability

including by trying every obvious solution out there— on several occasions.  If the problem were easy to solve, it would have been solved by now.  The reason we bring up the problem in a public forum ...

2021-07-23
The Register 1 related

Sophos researchers say Discord's own CDN is becoming an increasingly popular malware distribution channel, with much of the malware focused on data theft

Biz insists it's trying as hard as possible to scrub clean its IRC-for-the-2020s  —  Sophos on Thursday warned that internet instant … Source: Sophos News . Tweets: @thepacketrat Source: Sophos News :...

2020-11-01
Protocol

A profile of Discord, which lies at the center of the gaming world with 100M+ MAUs, as it pushes to turn into a communication tool for everyone, not just gamers

Most longtime Discord users have a similar origin story.  They liked playing video games, and liked playing with their friends … Tweets: @kevinctofel , @panzer , @postimusmaximus , @aweary , @drorpole...

2019-01-01
The Next Web

Inside digital music piracy and sharing in the 2000s via P2P networks like Napster, LimeWire, Gnutella, as well as IRC and internet music service Audiogalaxy

Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web :

2018-12-31
The Next Web

Inside digital music piracy and sharing in the 2000s via P2P networks like Napster, LimeWire, Gnutella, as well as IRC and internet music service Audiogalaxy

A couple of decades ago - well before a $10 monthly fee would unlock access to virtually every song ever recorded through streaming services …

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