Historic Chat Logs

Go back in time with these historic internet chat logs from the 1990s.

Curated from the chat logs section of the academic communications archive. Much thanks to ibiblio.org for providing archive hosting.

IRC logs from the Oklahoma City Bombing (April 1995)

• Log 1: Wed 12:15pm CDT - Thu 12:15pm CDT - ASCII - 360k - GZIP'ed - 114k
• Log 2: Thu 12:15pm CDT - Fri 12:15pm CDT - ASCII - 193k - GZIP'ed - 49k
• Log 3: Fri 12:15pm CDT - Sunday 3:21pm CDT - ASCII - 109k - GZIP'ed - 30k

IRC logs from the 1994 California Earthquake

• IRC log started Mon Jan 17 06:05 (587k)
• IRC log started Mon Jan 17 08:51 (459k)

IRC logs from the Gulf War 1991

• The 'official' desert-storm +report logs from LogSrv
• Tar and gzip'ed copy of all the desert-storm +report logs (307k)
• +Peace log from Jan 17 (55k)
• Bombing of Israel (3k)
• +report from Jan 16 (120k)
• +report from Jan 17 (107k)
• Look at all the logs in the Gulf-War directory.

Other Events:

• IRC log from the 1992 Russian Revolutions (73k)
• IRC log of the 1992 USA Presidential Election (134k)
• IRC logs of various meetings
• ICB logs of various online weddings
• All the Logs of the Communications Archive