Happy 15th Birthday, freenode!
Friday, January 30th, 2009christel of the freenode network writes in a posting on the staffblog about the beginning of freenode, which started 15 years ago.
15 years ago, on January 29th 1994 Rob (lilo) Levin first joined the channel #linuxneo on the EFNet IRC network. This date has since been referred to as the conceptual moment, the foundation, the cornerstone which later led to the network you now know as freenode.
She continues to tell how freenode became a network of its own, which happened after the channel has been through several moves over various networks to finally become irc.linpeople.org in 1995 – and “a few name-changes later and we’re freenode.”
