i was invited to join in on festivities on a Irc. i have no idea what an Irc is but they gave me an url. i clicked on the url and it asked me to launch an application. what application do i need or do you recommend? what is an Irc? i really just wanted to check it out to see what a Irc was.
thanks partylizard, is it a video chat and do you know where i can get the mIRC?
IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat. It's a protocol just for chatting with people, (one on one, or in rooms of people) kinda like http is a protocol for web browsers, or torrents are a protocol for sharing files.
To use the protocol, you just grab a program for it. mIRC is the most popular and has been for years. It's free. Once you run it, you pick a nickname, and a server, there are thousands, and connect, pick a chat room, and chat away. Be careful though, it's notoriously seedy. i.e. warez, porn trading, porn passwords, cracks, mp3 sharing, etc. It's generally used by bored high school and college kids, but there are still some regular, legit rooms (called "channels" on IRC).
It can also be slightly confusing at first, because it uses it's own commands, for example, to join a chat room (channel) named "chat", you would type "/join #chat", etc.
It's not really designed for video sharing or anything like that, just basic chatting, but you can transfer files (like pics) to each other.
GeekDrop uses IRC as it's chat room. You can try it out by clicking the link in the menu to the right that says "Live GeekDrop Chat".
thanks stardogg, i will give it a shot and see what happens thanks for the heads up on the seedy stuff
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i was invited to join in on festivities on a Irc. i have no idea what a Irc is but they gave me a url. i clicked on the url and it asked me to launch a application. what application do i need or do you recommend? what is a Irc? i really just wanted to check it out to see what a Irc was.
IRC is a chat program. Read more here
I use to use IRC a lot untill a year or so ago for chatting with mates that was in a social group with me.
It is somewhat similar to Skype where you can chat ono-on-one or have a group of people joining into one
conversation. I prefer to use the mIRC client because it is easy to setup and use but at the same tuime very powerfull
if you want to write user scripts etc.
If you don't come right please come back with questions and I am sure someone will be able to answer you. I know DoGG
also have used it in his days. (That is how we met to start off with )