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IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat. It's basically like discord where you can talk to people online but it's very old. check out https://libera.chat if you haven't experienced IRC before it would be a good starting point :D
you can read more about it on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC
Discord also retains chat history. When you join a channel on IRC, you don't see any of the previous chat history.
The great thing about IRC is that it's not owned by a corporation. If you're interested in a modern open standard that has the same features as Discord, check out Matrix
IRCv3 has chat history but it hasn't been widely deployed yet.
Think of IRC as a spiritual parent to discord. The big advantage for discord comes from media - embedding images easily on the server, reaction, voice chat and screen sharing.
It does make one wonder what would have happened if IRC had implemented some of that functionality back in say the 90s/00s.
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