The Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a way of sending text messages in real-time Internet (chat) or synchronous communication. It is designed primarily for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, but also allows for a communication via private message, as well as chat and data transfers via the Client-to-Client Direct.
On the day in March 2009, the top 100 IRC networks serving more than half a million users at once, with hundreds of thousands of channels (most of which stand on vacancy), operating in a total of roughly 1500 servers by around the world.
IRC was created by Jarkko Oikarinen in August 1988 to replace a program called MUT (multi-talk) in a OuluBox called BBS in Finland. Oikarinen found inspiration in a chat system known as Bitnet Relay, which operated on the Bitnet.
The IRC was used to disclose the attempted Soviet coup of 1991 through a media blackout of. Was used previously in a similar way during the Persian Gulf war. The records of these events and other events are held on file ibiblio.
Software IRC client is available for virtually every computer operating system that supports the establishment of a network.
IRC NETWORK
There are thousands of running IRC networks in the world. Operate several implementations of IRC servers, and are administered by the various groups of IRC operators, but the protocol outlined for users of the IRC is very similar, and all IRC networks can be achieved by the same software customer.
Few Big Irc Networks are listed below:
Efnet
Ircnet
Quakenet
Undernet
Dalnet