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| Founded | 1997 |
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| Geographic location | Europe United States |
| Based in | Worldwide |
| Website URL | www.quakenet.org |
| Primary DNS | irc.quakenet.org |
| Average users | 65,000 – 75,000 |
| Average channels | 40,000 – 45,000 |
| Average servers | 12 |
| Content/subject | Public/Video Games |
QuakeNet is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network, and was one of the largest IRC networks. The network was founded in 1997 by Garfield (Henrik Rasmussen, Denmark) and Oli (Oli Gustafsson, Sweden) as a new home for their respective countries' Quake channels.[1][2] At its peak on February 8, 2005, the network recorded 243,394 simultaneous connections.[3] As of 2020[update], there are 9 servers and about 12,000 users remaining.
- ^ "QuakeNet History". Retrieved 2012-01-08.
- ^ "QuakeNet Staff List". Retrieved 2012-01-08.
- ^ "netsplit.de: QuakeNet". Retrieved 2009-04-23.