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0 pointsscrollaway10y ago0 comments

The ircv3.net organization and the movement behind it started in 2012 and gained traction in 2014-2015. You're thinking of something else.

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FireBeyond10y ago· 1 in thread

The specs listed under 3.1 have copyright dates including 2004, 2009, 2010.

There's also this, which may be what I'm thinking of, and perhaps not official, but one of the first things I recall:

http://achurch.org/irc3/

Dating to 1999.

Macha10y ago

Some of the few features that are rolled into IRCv3 like SASL or CAP negotiation were widespread and specified on their own for long before IRCv3 was a thing.

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