Jarkko Oikarinen (born
16 August,
1967) is the developer of the first
Internet chat network, called
Internet relay chat (IRC), where he is known as WiZ. While working at
Finland's
University of Oulu in August
1988, he wrote the first IRC
server and
client programs, which he produced to replace the
MUT (MultiUser Talk) program on the Finnish
BBS OuluBox. Using the
Bitnet Relay chat system as inspiration, Oikarinen continued to develop IRC over the next four years, receiving assistance from Darren Reed in co-authoring the IRC Protocol. In 1997, his development of IRC earned Oikarinen a
Dvorak Award for Personal Achievement—Outstanding Global Interactive Personal Communications System; in 2005, the
Millennium Technology Prize Foundation, a Finnish public-private partnership, honored him with one of three Special Recognition Awards.
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