 quakenet is one of the largest internet relay chat (irc) networks, with a peak average of about 72,000 users  and 42,000 channels. the network was founded in 1997 by garfield (henrik rasmussen, denmark) and oli (ola ingvarsson, sweden) as a new home for their respective countries' quake channels. at its peak on february 8, 2005, the network recorded 243,394 simultaneous connections. ==about quakenet== founded in 1997 as an irc network for quakeworld players, quakenet saw huge growth over the coming years as it attracted many other gamers. as interest in irc started to decline, quakenet's userbase followed suit however recent moves to combat this with pr linkups to several game publishers, development studios and hardware manufacturers have started to reverse this trend. ==services== channels often feature quakenet's requestable bespoke channel service 'q'. q is the main channel service and manages account authentication similar to nickname registration on servers with nickserv; although there is no nickname protection service, instead operating on a first come first served basis. the other popular channel service seen in the larger channels is 's'. s is spamscan, a service used to detect spam from channels and warn or later punish the offending users. additional services include o as an operserv reference bot to the server operators on quakenet, and r (requestbot) which allows users to request both q and s if their channel meets their requirements. there are many other backend services which help quakenet staff administer the network. qu
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