IRC-Galleria

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IRC-Galleria

Type of site	Image gallery, Social network service
Country of origin	Finland
Owner	Herdifier Oy
Created by	Tomi Lintelä, Jari Jaanto
URL	www.irc-galleria.net
Commercial	Yes
Registration	Required
Current status	Active

IRC-Galleria (Finnish for "IRC gallery") is a social networking website in Finland. It was founded in December 2000 by Tomi Lintelä and Jari Jaanto as a photo gallery for the Finnish users of Internet Relay Chat (IRC). As of April 2009, IRC-Galleria had over 500,000 registered users and 9 million images.^[1]

IRC-Galleria users are required to be 13 years of age or older. The site’s primary language is Finnish. A majority of users are aged between 13 and 22, with the mean age being about 20 years.^[2]

IRC-Galleria has also operated in some other European countries such as Russia, Estonia and Germany.