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S2:E3 - The History of IRC and the Evolution of Community Tools

In this episode, we talk about the history of IRC and the evolution of other community building tools with Sara Chipps, co-founder of Jewelbots and director of public Q&A at Stack Overflow, and Jason C McDonald, CEO and Lead Developer at MousePaw Media.

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Sara Chipps

Sara is a Javascript developer, open source advocate, cofounder of Jewelbots and Girl Develop It, and Director of Community at Stack Overflow

Jason C. McDonald

Jason C. McDonald is an author, speaker, and software developer with a passion for communication. He's the author of the popular "Dead Simple Python" article series on DEV, soon to be a book from No Starch Press.

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Amit Sharma

Great podcast. I was always thinking about IRC as why this old communication is still too much popular in modern times. Many doubts cleared now. Many tool could have been share how we can maintain history of all chats which can be synced across all device.
Keep sharing good stuff. Thanks.