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New Era

New Era is a digital magazine on new media that is made by Burcu Kıcık, Muhammet Can Otsay and Yaren Altunkıran for the New Media Project (Digital Journalism) course at Beykent University.

New Era is a digital magazine on new media that is made by Burcu Kıcık, Muhammet Can Otsay and Yaren Altunkıran for the New Media Project (Digital Journalism) course at Beykent University.

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M U H A M M E T C A N O T S A Y

IRC

One of the most important online chat applications and protocols in the

history of the Internet is IRC (Internet Relay Chat).

Designed for group communication, IRC has channels, private messages

can be sent and files are shared. There are servers that host these

communities on the internet. People connect to IRC servers, start

communicating with people by joining channels they are interested in.

Little information is available about the participants, only nicknames

unless they themselves share more. However, age, sex and location are

information that have become a rule to share in these communities.

There’s even an acronym called ASL PLS or ASL PLZ which means Age,

Sex, Location, Please.

The most popular application using the IRC infrastructure was mIRC. It

has been downloaded over 42 million times on Download.com alone.

Following the IRC technology, Windows Live Messenger (known as MSN)

became widely used.

Windows Live Messenger (MSN Messenger)

Developed by Microsoft, Windows Live Messenger reached 330 million

monthly users in June 2009.

Windows Live Messenger, which had a revolutionary effect at that time,

attracted great attention all over the world. One of the reasons for this

interest is that this application is a Microsoft application. At that time,

Microsoft's operating system, Windows, was used very dominantly.

Internet users have never experienced such a convenient and userfriendly

application as a communication application.

Some of these features were voice and video calls, sending images such

as emoji, vibration and animation, and being able to share your status.

Following the acquisition of Skype by Microsoft in May 2011, the

development of Windows Live Messenger was discontinued and was

completely discontinued in 2013. Microsoft encouraged its users to use

Skype.

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