Clients and Servers
IRC is a multi-user, multi-channel chatting network. It allows people all over the internet to talk to one another in real-time. IRC allows more than 2 users to talk at once, with access across the aggregate Internet, and providing a whole raft of other useful features.Each IRC user, ("client"), chooses a nickname. All communication with another user is either by nickname or by the channel that they or you are on (more information about channels later on).
The most important thing to remember about IRC is that you have to be willing to explore and learn to use it... Take your time, try not to get flustered, enjoy yourself, and you will soon be making new friends all over the world!
IRC is based on a client-server model. Clients are programs that connect to a server, a server is a program that transports data, (messages), from a user client to another. There are clients running on many different systems, (Unix, emacs, VMS, MSDOS, VM...), that allow you to connect to an IRC server. The client which will be spoken of here is the most widespread: ircII. Other clients are similar, and often accept ircII commands.
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