Probably an outdated thread. But IRC split into efnet and ircnet during the summer of 96. You can get the whole story on http://www.irc.org. Have fun There are a lot of missing pieces to the story of irc. Namely things that Jarkko failed to mention... Through ai.ai.mit.edu I got to know Vijay Subra...

So no one knows the exact date then? hehe, very odd... On a different note... This has struck me before, that admins must have seriously disliked eris to create a network purly dedicated to be free of it, I find that very odd... especially for (these days) such a widly known network. eris had an op...