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The Beirut Internet Relay Chat Network is the largest real-time Lebanese and Middle Eastern chat network in the world with 5 public server for clients located in different countries and serving a virtual meeting place where people from all over the world can meet and talk. It was established in March 2005.

History

Beirut was founded the night of 21st of March 2005 by Stefano El Douaihy. The founder and his friend Mike Minassian "Hayasdan" of #Beyrouth on the Undernet IRC network. Being frustrated with the current users on Undernet and wanting an alternate IRC network, they created Beirut IRC network as a substitute.

Starting when Mohamad Dimashk "Jimie" of #Liban DALnet joined the team and launched the first server which became Verdun. One day after that, Dimitar Tnokovski "Mitko" came and took control of the servers and services.

On April 7th, Beirut changed it's services and servers from beware to srvx, and from ircu daemon to Nefarious.

The network grew fast in a very short period of time and reached 9 servers in late summer 2005.

On the 30th of January, Hani Mouneimne "Sm0oth^" of ChatNet joined the club and made a big contribution by donating Hamra server and free hostings.

Publicly listed on February 8th 2006 in servers.ini, Beirut got immediately attacked by drones and spambots and was about to turn into chaos if "SeeknDestroy" hadn't joined the staff and scripted Snoop Service which halted the attacks and protected the network ever since.

Through its short history, Beirut has been repeatedly damaged by attacks such floods or ddos. After Israel started war on Lebanon (see Lebanon-Israel war), the attacks weren't only on the Lebanese land, but it is also on Internet, where Israeli drone runners were attacking with botnets. But, like the phoenix, it has risen from its ashes.

On the 22nd of December 2006, after weeks of hard coding, "Hal9000" made Beirut proud to be the first Nefarious IRCu network to be running Denora.

Current events

In February 2007 Beirut's red army team smashed all opponent IRC networks in the mIRC Tanks tournament

In March 2007 Beirut network celebrated it's 2nd anniversary on the 21st of March.

May 2007 saw the rise of all-out-war as an RPG game with more than fifty contestants from Beirut itself and a hundred of players battling from other networks such Rizon, Undernet, AmCool..

Stats

Joined by the powerful Lebanese diaspora, Beirut has acquired a reputation as “the network that never sleeps”.

With an average realtime population of 500 users and 110 channels, Beirut has become the main Middle Eastern IRC network and SearchIRC ranked it as 147th most populous network in the world.

Users growth is largely accomplished through its users and partners who brought the best of them to the network which flowerishes every day.

Support

You can maintain and protect your own channel by using the Beirut's Channel Service. Also, you can register and protect your nickname using the NS bot. Beirut IRC provides two support channels for its clients: #Help and #Service. To find out more info regrading registering channel or nickname join the #Service channel. If you have any Computer related question, join #Help.