What is Internet Relay Chat?
In Short (IRC) is One of the most popular and most interactive services
on the Internet. The Web is nice for finding information and E-Mail
beats snail mail 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 you can exchange text messages interactively
with other people all over the world. Some of the more popular chat
clients are mIRC, Pirch, XChat and Virc for Windows and XChat or Ircle
for Mac's, Amirc For the Amiga.
What program you use does not really matter as all of them connect to
the same chat networks. When logged into a chat session, you converse
by typing messages that are instantly sent to other chat participants.
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