Internet Relay Chat
From Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia written in simple English for easy reading.
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is an Internet chat system. People from many countries use it.
The IRC chat rooms are on servers and they are also called IRC channels. There are small IRC servers (for example, OperaNet) to medium IRC servers (FreeNode and DalNet, which have about 30k users) and big IRC servers (for example, EFNet, UnderNet, which have overs 100k users).
To use IRC, you must have a program that access it; a program of this kind is called IRC client. There are many Java web-browser based clients in addition to application based. Opera contains an new, fast easy-to-use IRC client built into the browser. Popular stand-alone clients includes mIRC (Microsoft Windows) and X-Chat (*nix).
Simple English Wikipedia has an IRC channel (#wikipedia-simple) on freenode server. One of the servers of freenode is irc.openproject.net. Wikipedians may use it to talk with other people who help Wikipedia.
[edit] Useful links
- #wikipedia-simple - Freenode channel for Simple English Wikipedia
- #vandalism-simple-wp - Counter Vandalism channel for Simple English Wikipedia
- [1] - SwiftSwitch channel for IRC Info and Bots
- IRC - more info about Wikipedia IRC channels
- IRC instructions - how to use IRC
- MyOpera - how to use the Opera IRC client
- mIRC - a Windows IRC client
- EFNet - A popular IRC server