Editing IRC (section)

===EFnet===
In August 1990, the first major disagreement took place in the IRC world. The "A-net" (Anarchy net) included a server named eris.berkeley.edu. It was all open, required no passwords and had no limit on the number of connects. As Greg "wumpus" Lindahl explains:<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=History of IRC (Internet Relay Chat) |url=https://daniel.haxx.se/irchistory.html |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=daniel.haxx.se}}</ref> "it had a wildcard server line, so people were hooking up servers and [[IRC takeover#Nick collision|nick-colliding]] everyone". The "Eris Free Network", [[EFnet]], made the eris machine the first to be Q-lined (Q for quarantine) from IRC. In wumpus' words again:<ref name=":0" /> "Eris refused to remove that line, so I formed EFnet. It wasn't much of a fight; I got all the hubs to join, and almost everyone else got carried along." A-net was formed with the eris servers, while EFnet was formed with the non-eris servers. History showed most servers and users went with EFnet. Once A-net disbanded, the name EFnet became meaningless, and once again it was the one and only IRC network.<ref name="stenberg"/>

Around that time IRC was used to report on the [[1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt]] throughout a [[media blackout]].<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/communications/logs/report-ussr-gorbatchev
 |title=IRC transcripts from the time of the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt
 |access-date=8 April 2011
|publisher=[[ibiblio]]
 |location=[[Chapel Hill, North Carolina]]
 |url-status=dead
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090628013626/http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/communications/logs/report-ussr-gorbatchev
 |archive-date=28 June 2009
}}</ref> It was previously used in a similar fashion during the [[Gulf War]].<ref>{{cite web
| url         = http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/communications/logs/Gulf-War/
| title       = IRC logs of events of the Gulf War
| access-date  = 8 April 2011
| publisher   = [[ibiblio]]
| location    = [[Chapel Hill, North Carolina]]
}}</ref> [[Chat log]]s of these and other events are kept in the [[ibiblio]] archive.<ref>{{cite web
| url         = http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/communications/logs/
| title       = Logs of major events in the online community
| access-date  = 8 April 2011
| publisher   = [[ibiblio]]
| location    = [[Chapel Hill, North Carolina]]
}}</ref>