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History and Growth
The chart below plots the increase in size of
freenode
over time. The network began as #linuxneo, a tiny GNU/Linux
support channel, created by Rob Levin in 1994 on EFNet IRC. That channel
soon changed its name to #LinPeople. By 1995, after moving to
Undernet and then DALnet, #LinPeople became a small network,
irc.linpeople.org. In early 1998, it became Open Projects
Net, with about 200 users and fewer than 20 channels.
In 2002, Open Projects Net became freenode,
a service of Peer-Directed Projects Center, a
tax-exempt corporation. Today freenode peaks
at around 65,000 users and contains just under 40,000 channels.
Copyright © 2002-2012 by Peer-Directed Projects Center. Network date and time: Saturday, 04-Feb-2012 02:51:00 GMT.
Comments to email address: support at freenode dot net.
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