When I was younger, I use to use this old chat system called IRC. I wonder what ever happened to that; the internet has changed so much since then.
I remember that, too.  Well, considering the IRC clients are computer programs that we can install maybe it is still around.
Who created IRC anyhow?
I actually know his name.  It was created byJarkko Oikarinen in 1988.   
Oh wow, it was made when I was born! And there I was as a child thought I had found something new! How did it get so big? I know it was pretty big when I found it.
communication via private messages as well as chat and data transfer, including file sharing.
Client software is available for every major operating system that supports Internet access. As of April 2011, the top 100 IRC networks served more than half a million users at a time, with hundreds of thousands of channels operating on a total of roughly 1,500 servers out of roughly 3,200 servers worldwide. IRC usage has been declining steadily since 2003, losing 60% of its users (from 1 million to about 400,000 in 2012) and half
Internet Relay Chat
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is an application layer protocol that facilitates communication in the form of text. The chat process works on a client/server networking model. IRC clients are computer programs that users can install on their system or web based applications running either locally in the browser or on a 3rd party server. These clients communicate with chat servers to transfer messages to other clients. IRC is mainly designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, but also allows one-on-one