IRC

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About

IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat. IRC is used for group communication without any registration.

History

IRC was created by Jarkko Oikarinen in 1988. IRC is used by many people from many demographics.

Here is a great article on the history and use of IRC Wikipedia:Internet_Relay_Chat

Commands

There are many irc commands that are useful if you want to have the full experience of IRC.

/join

/join is used to join another channel, for example, if you wanted to join #townsquare, you would type /join #townsquare. It’s that easy!

/me

This command is useful if you want to refer to youreself. For example, if your nickname is CoolGuy, when you type “/me likes soda” you get “CoolGuy likes soda.”

Clients

Linux

EPIC is a great text based IRC client wich is available in RPM form on most RPM mirror sites as well as in compillable form from their website.

XChat is a great Linux/Windows IRC client.

Mac

X-Chat Aqua

Windows

mIRC is a very popular client which has scripting capabilities.

Trillian is a great IRC client which also has capabilities for MSN, Yahoo, AIM, and ICQ

XChat is a great Linux/Windows IRC client.

Servers

Individual Servers

irc.dslextreme.com

The server associated with this radioshow

For Linux

IRCd

For Windows

Beware IRCd

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