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title: "IRC: Why it Failed"
date: 2018-05-17
slides_link: /static/talks/irc-why-it-failed.pdf
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# IRC: Why it Failed

A brief discussion of the IRC protocol and why it has failed in today's internet.

Originally presented at the Pony Developers panel at Everfree Northwest, 2018.

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