IRC
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[edit] What is IRC?
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is one of the most popular and most interactive services on the Internet. Sure, the Web is nice for finding info and E-mail beats snailmail hands down, but when you've been wondering 'where the others are?', then IRC is what you're looking for.
IRC is the net's equivalent of CB radio. But unlike CB, Internet Relay Chat lets people all over the world participate in real-time conversations. IRC is where the Net comes alive!
Using an IRC client (program) you can exchange text messages interactively with other people all over the world.
Mirc, Pirch, Virc, XChat for Windows
--> see also Internet Relay Chat , BitchX , Irssi , Xchat , ChatSlang , IrcQuotes , EfNet , VHosts, Mirc , MircScripting , TclScripts
If u have Java installed, u may use this Applet to enter the Efnet without installing any client.
[edit] RecentChanges on IRC
You can watch the RecentChanges on IRC, Efnet in #wiki (again).
The method is described here. Mediawiki creates UDP packets and then you can just get them with netcat and pipe them into ircii, they are formatted ready for IRC.
[edit] RFC1459
 | This is the JargonFile (V4.00) entry for IRC - Next: iron, Prev: interrupts locked out |
| :IRC: /I-R-C/ /n./ [Internet Relay Chat] A worldwide "party line" network that allows one to converse with others in real time. IRC is structured as a network of Internet servers, each of which accepts connections from client programs, one per user. The IRC community and the Usenet and MUD communities overlap to some extent, including both hackers and regular folks who have discovered the wonders of computer networks. Some Usenet jargon has been adopted on IRC, as have some conventions such as emoticons. There is also a vigorous native jargon, represented in this lexicon by entries marked [IRC]. See also talk mode. | |
| * (text is auto-included via JargonExtension by mutante using jargon with VERSION 4.0.0, 24 JUL 1996 - JargonFile by Eric S. Raymond is in the public domain) | |
