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* 2014: IRC? lol anon, you should try WhatsApp, you can even send voice messages. | * 2014: IRC? lol anon, you should try WhatsApp, you can even send voice messages. | ||
* 2018: IRC? lol anon, that's prehistoric! you should checkout Discord and Slack, so much better. | * 2018: IRC? lol anon, that's prehistoric! you should checkout Discord and Slack, so much better. | ||
| + | * 2024: IRC? lol anon, what's that? use Telegra- Durov did WHAT?! | ||
== Channels == | == Channels == | ||
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Here's a regex that will find you a chan-related IRC channel name. Use it to search IRC logs or *chan board posts: | Here's a regex that will find you a chan-related IRC channel name. Use it to search IRC logs or *chan board posts: | ||
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What this command does is give you the ping time, or lag time, between | What this command does is give you the ping time, or lag time, between | ||
| − | you and the person you | + | you and the person you pings. Nowadays, you don't have to worry about |
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== See Also == | == See Also == | ||
Revision as of 09:06, 28 December 2024
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a system that facilitates transfer of messages in the form of text. The chat process works on a client/server model of networking. IRC clients are computer programs that a user can install on their system. These clients are able to communicate with chat servers to transfer messages to other clients. IRC originally was a fork of UNIX Talk, which was an older method of communicating between two UNIX machines (UNIX Talk itself was a modification of UNIX Wall). IRC was designed to allow multiple users to talk at the same time, which was a limitation of early UNIX Talk daemons. IRC has since become so much more.
Contents
A timeline of anti-IRC rhetoric
- 1998: IRC? lol anon, why don't you use ICQ instead, it's much better.
- 2002: IRC? lol anon, just install MSN, stop being such a nerd.
- 2006: IRC? lol anon, with Skype you can make phone calls for free.
- 2010: IRC? lol anon, Chat is all you need, everybody is there already.
- 2014: IRC? lol anon, you should try WhatsApp, you can even send voice messages.
- 2018: IRC? lol anon, that's prehistoric! you should checkout Discord and Slack, so much better.
- 2024: IRC? lol anon, what's that? use Telegra- Durov did WHAT?!
Channels
List of IRC channels
Here's a regex that will find you a chan-related IRC channel name. Use it to search IRC logs or *chan board posts:
#\/\w+\/[x21-x7E]*
For example,
grep -iEoha '#\/\w+\/[x21-x7E]*' *rizon* | sort | uniq
will search a set of files with rizon in the name.
Graphical
Hexchat - Windows + Linux (Free & Libre fork of X-Chat on Windows)
Limechat - Windows & OS X
Quassel - (Windows, Linux, OS X & Android) Client-Server based IRC client. Replaces the need for a bouncer.
Terminal
irssi - Linux/Unix Terminal Client
weechat - Linux/Unix Terminal Client
BitchX - Linux/Unix Terminal Client
Emacs
- erc - Emacs IRC Client ( just use this one, trust me )
- circe - Another Emacs IRC Client
- riece - Another Another Emacs IRC Client
Bouncers
ZNC - Linux/Unix, OS X, Windows (cygwin)
bip - Linux/Unix IRC proxy/bouncer
Tutorials
http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/new2irc.html
http://wiki.darenet.org/New_Users
Need to Know IRC Commands
/join #channelname Example: /join #installgentoo
Enter a channel of your choice.
/part #channelname Example: /part #installgentoo
Leave a channel. :*(
/me (message) Example: /me is angry
An action message.
/msg nickname (message) Example: /msg foobar Hey tat, how are you?
Send a message to someone or somewhere.
/nick changes your nickname Example: type /nick newnickname
Set your nick. Depending on your service, the length may be limited.
/ping nickname Example: /ping luv2quilt
What this command does is give you the ping time, or lag time, between you and the person you pings. Nowadays, you don't have to worry about lag generally, unless you're over TOR, or running TOR over satellite.
/whois nickname Example: /whois bossmom
See a bit more information about another user.
/help Example: /help Basic IRC Commands
There's one more very helpful command, and probably the one you'll use a lot when first starting out.
