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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.
Mozilla runs an IRC server to host channels for discussion of topics related to the Mozilla project. The rest of this article describes how to connect to Mozilla's server, and the channels that can be found there.
===Pick an IRC client===
