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IRC stands for "Internet Relay Chat". It's a protocol for real-time chat sessions. (Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irc about IRC on Wikipedia].) It was invented before the World Wide Web, so it was adopted by early open source contributors and Web developers, and it has been used by those communities ever since. Like e-mail, no single company controls IRC. IRC servers are offered by many individuals and organizations. Users log in to a particular server to chat with other users on that server, using a client program designed for IRC; just as there are many programs for reading e-mail, there are many different IRC client programs. Chat discussions take place in "channels", which have names starting with a '#' symbol. | IRC stands for "Internet Relay Chat". It's a protocol for real-time chat sessions. (Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irc about IRC on Wikipedia].) It was invented before the World Wide Web, so it was adopted by early open source contributors and Web developers, and it has been used by those communities ever since. Like e-mail, no single company controls IRC. IRC servers are offered by many individuals and organizations. Users log in to a particular server to chat with other users on that server, using a client program designed for IRC; just as there are many programs for reading e-mail, there are many different IRC client programs. Chat discussions take place in "channels", which have names starting with a '#' symbol. | ||
Mozilla runs an IRC server to host channels for discussion of topics related to the Mozilla project | Mozilla runs an IRC server to host channels for discussion of topics related to the Mozilla project. | ||
===Pick an IRC client=== | ===Pick an IRC client=== | ||