What Is IRC?
Everyone has heard of chat rooms. They have been around for a long time. Lots of people have never gone into one, though. There are different kinds of chat rooms on the Internet. You can go to the public chat rooms that run in your browser at sites such as Yahoo.com and chat with anonymous strangers. You can go to chat rooms at some of your favorite Web sites and talk to like-minded people. Those are tame. There is still a Wild West on the Internet for chat, and it is called IRC, short for Internet Relay Chat. This is one part of the Internet that no advertisers, sensors, or corporations have been able to get to. Getting onto an IRC server and then into a room, or channel, is easy in Linux.
You need to learn a whole host of new commands ...
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