Internet Relay Chat - IRC

IRC is one of the first chat “client to server” protocol based applications, yet is one of the most advanced clients you can get. For all you that haven’t heard anything about IRC, but still know some about computers, you should definitely try it, it’s not really a instant messenger as the most of you know it, it’s more like a mass chat communication program where you can sit in a constant chat conversation with thousands of people from all over the world.

I personally use this messenger client all the time, because it covers all my interest areas, but for some who prefer only to talk to people they know and trust, a instant messenger as you know them today is more the thing for them.For the technical part of IRC, then IRC is a lot more advanced and a paradise for skilled computer users.

A big part of the IRC concept is that you are able to connect to servers with different “bots” and that you are able customize the clients alot with your own scripts etc., these can help you to administrate a channel and do different jobs for you, for example kick “spamming” users etc..

IRC is a OpenSource project and can be found anywhere on the net. The whole idea behind IRC is to connect chat communities together; witch is a really nice concept if you ask me. The way you chat with IRC, is that you connect to a IRC-Network where you can choose a large number of channels to hold your conversations in. The largest networks today, are hosting about 150.000 users all the time and have over 20 servers connected to their network.

Kind regards,
Nimai Hemmersbach & André Valentin