IRC Network Basics
Having chosen a communication standard for the chat, we should take a look at how exactly IRC networks are built.
Note
Ideally, you should have evaluated the IRC network basics discussed in this section prior to choosing IRC—since it's a bad thing to find out that IRC introduces a complicated structure after already having made the decision to use it. To this point, however, we've been working with "common knowledge" about using IRC networks, just for the sake of application planning. Now that we've led you to the "right" method to use for the application (IRC), this section provides the details you need to execute that plan.
IRC networks distinguish between clients and servers. Users can participate on the network only by ...
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