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The South African IRC network was formed out of necessity, long before localised IRC networks became "fashionable". The IRC servers in South Africa were originally connected to the EFnet. In the latter half of 1993 it became apparent that the 64Kbps (kilobits per second) line which connected South Africa's Uninet to the rest of the Internet was becoming too heavily utilised to support the IRC link to the EFnet. Often, "lag" of up to half an hour was experienced to the rest of the EFnet! The EFnet link was therefore severed, leaving South Africa's few IRC servers to operate as an independent little network. This has been the status quo ever since, even though individual servers have come and gone. | |
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