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{{About|Relay chat network over BITNET||Relay (disambiguation)}} {{more footnotes|date=September 2013}} [[File:BITNET Relay screenshot.png|thumb|A session showing SIGNUP, SIGNON, LINKS and HELP over BITNET Relay]] '''BITNET Relay''', also known as the '''Inter Chat Relay Network,''' was a chat network setup over [[BITNET]] nodes. It predated [[Internet Relay Chat]] and other [[online chat]] systems. The program that made the network possible was called "Relay" and was developed by Jeff Kell of the [[University of Tennessee at Chattanooga]] in 1985 using the [[REXX]] [[programming language]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://web.inter.nl.net/users/fred/relay/relhis.html |title= Excerpt from "RELAY: Past, Present, and Future" |first=Jeff |last=Kell |year=1987}}</ref> This system drew its name from "[[relay race]]" which shares a comparable behavior, where messages travel [[Hop-by-hop transport|hop-by-hop]] along the network of Relay servers until they reached their destination. Messages sent within the [[United States]] would take a few seconds to reach their destinations, but communication times varied in other countries or internationally. If one or more network links were down, BITNET would [[store and forward]] the messages when the network links recovered, minutes or even hours later.
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