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IIRC, BIX morphed into IRC.

• ghaff 4y ago
  As far as I know, BIX just shut down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Information_Exchange https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Information_Exchange
  • jmclnx 4y ago
    Seems you are right, looks like IRC came out of something call MUT. I wonder how I was thinking BIX was somehow involved :)
    • vram22 4y ago
      Possibly like IBM to HAL, with a subliminal cipher in between. Both pairs being TLAs ;)