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Beirut was founded the night of 21st of March 2005 by Stefano El Douaihy. The founder and his friend Mike Minassian "Hayasdan" of #Beyrouth on the Undernet IRC network. Being frustrated with the current lame users on Undernet and wanting an alternate IRC network, they created Beirut IRC network as a substitute.
Starting when Mohamad Dimashk "Jimie" of #Liban DALnet joined the team and lunched the first server which became Verdun. One day after that, Dimitar Tnokovski "Mitko" came and took control of the servers and services.
On April 7th, Beirut changed it's services and servers from beware to srvx, and from ircu deamon to Nefarious.
The network grew fast in a very short period of time and reached 9 servers in late summer 2005.
On the 30th of January, Hani Mouneimne "Sm0oth^" of ChatNet joined the club and made a big contribution by donating Hamra server and free hostings.
Publicly listed on February 8th 2006 in servers.ini, Beirut got immediately attacked by drones and spambots and was about to turn into chaos if "SeeknDestroy" hadn't joined the staff and scripted Snoop Service which halted the attacks and protected the network ever since.
Through its short history, Beirut has been repeatedly damaged by attacks such floods or ddos. After Israel started war on Lebanon, the attacks weren't only on the Lebanese land, but it is also on Internet, where Israeli drone runners were attacking with botnets. But, like the phoenix, it has risen from its ashes.
On the 22nd of December 2006, after weeks of hard coding, "Hal9000" made Beirut proud to be the first Nefarious IRCu network to be running Denora. | |
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