BlabberNet is a communications network with a long history. It was founded in 1999 as a South Africa centric IRC network providing real time text chat facilities to many individuals and companies. As of 2010 the network's aim is to research and provide more modern communications services using XMPP and SIP, in addition to updating the IRC infrastructure.

• Atheme Services upgraded to 6.0.4. [2011-03-06]
• All IRCDs upgraded to InspIRCD 2.0.3. [2011-03-06]
• wander.blabber.net passes stability tests. [2011-02-22]
• gravity.blabber.net passes stability tests. [2011-02-07]
• Netherlands based gravity.blabber.net now in testing. [2010-12-19]
• Germany based gravity.blabber.net failed stability tests - server terminated. [2010-12-18]
• New IRC server: gravity.blabber.net. Based in Germany, low latency for European chatters. Still under testing. [2010-09-07]
• GeoDNS enabled on irc.blabber.net. Connecting to irc.blabber.net will send you to the geographically nearest server to you. [2010-07-05]
• IRC network upgrade [2010-06-27]