IRC is an acronym for Internet Relay Chat, which is a pre-Web
1.0 chat protocol often used by those who take part in non-
mainstream communities and websites. - Developer: Jarkko
Oikarinen - Release Date: 08/1988 - Twitter: Unknown - Known
For: IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a custom chat protocol that
allows people over the internet to communicate real-time. To
chat with others you must connect to an IRC Server, usually
belonging to a network of servers. Users have the ability to
connect to servers that use the IRC framework. There are large,
public IRC networks such as Freenode and EFnet and smaller,
independent networks that are used by a small group of friends.
Private IRC servers are popular amongst old school internet
users because they lend an aire of being "underground" or elite
in some way. People who run their own IRC networks are generally
full of themselves and can be prone to USI. Once the user is
connected they have several options. On each server, there is
something called a "channel". A channel i