Guest guest Posted June 28, 2001 Report Share Posted June 28, 2001 > Ruthie wrote: > I hardly go onto IRC these days What is IRC?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 29, 2001 Report Share Posted June 29, 2001 > > I hardly go onto IRC these days > > What is IRC?!? Internet Relay Chat. The chat area of the net, usually not on the web though, it requires a small piece of software to enable you to connect to one of many IRC servers and then join a " channel " or chat room. The channels are different from web based chat rooms in that they only exist if people are on them.If you " join " one which didn't previously exist, it will now exist. As soon as the last person leaves, the channel disappears. IRC also has its own code of behaviour and methods of joining, leaving, etc. Channel operators or " ops " have powers over other members, they can kick, ban, op others etc. It's a bit more geeky than web based chat rooms, but not that much. The software I use is mIRC. Ruthie Ruthie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 29, 2001 Report Share Posted June 29, 2001 Nice explanation Ruthie. Only thing I would add is that although the rooms only exist if there are people in them, you can make them semi permanent by having an automated programme running which sits in the room. In our Buffy channel #thehellmouth (hit spin off from the usenet groups uk.media.tv.angel and buffy-v-slayer) we had a program or 'bot' called Wolfram who sits there gathering statistics etc. This particular automated bot is programmed where is serves drinks etc as well, so it has its uses. I doesn't mean that we wouldn't meet the same people if we joined the channel and the bot wasn't running, as each channel has an address - ours is #thehellmouth on the Newnet server and people join the same channel on the same server each day. And our is registered so that we have certain people who, when they join the channel, are automatically recognized and have 'op' (operator) status and this means they can ban people (we get a bit of spam from time to time as well as undesirable characters joining the room), and they can also de-voice people so that if someone came on and was being rude/swearing etc they can take away their ability to send messages to the channel so the rest of the people can't hear them. It is quite dossy, and used to be geeky as it was the original way of chatting, but programmes like mIrc make it very easy to use. If anyone wants to give it a go, download mirc from www.mirc.com and join #bread one of the Newnet servers - that's one of my rooms. Its a sort of anything channel and is normally quiet and un-intimidating. There are maybe 8 or 10 of us who go there regularly and anyone is welcome. There are also rooms on almost any server called #newbies which are run for people who are new to IRC. Some channels also run seminars and courses on IRC!!! What I will say is that it is faster than web based chat and you can do more 'stuff' on them like look for people who may have been in a channel and you can do private chats as well as room chats. Its also a bit addictive if you find a channel with people on it you like. At 07:29 29/06/2001 +0000, you wrote: > > What is IRC?!? > >Internet Relay Chat. The chat area of the net, usually not on the web >though, it requires a small piece of software to enable you to connect >to one of many IRC servers and then join a " channel " or chat room. >The channels are different from web based chat rooms in that they >only exist if people are on them.If you " join " one which didn't >previously exist, it will now exist. As soon as the last person >leaves, the channel disappears. > >IRC also has its own code of behaviour and methods of joining, >leaving, etc. Channel operators or " ops " have powers over other >members, they can kick, ban, op others etc. > >It's a bit more geeky than web based chat rooms, but not that much. >The software I use is mIRC. > >Ruthie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 29, 2001 Report Share Posted June 29, 2001 Yep - this is where I met DH (on #london) I'd been using IRC for over a year before I did though Had had another bf before from it too (from #brighton) I used DOS to access it first of all (as it was such a long time ago) but eventually said bf sorted me out a windows version. DH has since got mIRC on the computer now, but I rearly use it anymore. It was very addictive at first and I met a good group of friends but that peetered out over a year or so. I suppose I was first introduced to " chat rooms " in college. I got to know about the college one and logged on with my own name () as my nickname. It was mostly lads on it and some were using female names to try to spice up the conversations. They said I should try a female name, unaware that I was female using my real name which happened to be a male one! Must say I had a bit of fun before they realised exactly who I was! So to sum up, chat rooms was why I bought a PC in the first place. But I must say I love this list as it is so nice to have lots of people to chat with when you are stuck in the house with DS, especially when he is sleeping. Thanks everybody Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 29, 2001 Report Share Posted June 29, 2001 Yep - this is where I met DH (on #london) I'd been using IRC for over a year before I did though Had had another bf before from it too (from #brighton) I used DOS to access it first of all (as it was such a long time ago) but eventually said bf sorted me out a windows version. DH has since got mIRC on the computer now, but I rearly use it anymore. It was very addictive at first and I met a good group of friends but that peetered out over a year or so. I suppose I was first introduced to " chat rooms " in college. I got to know about the college one and logged on with my own name () as my nickname. It was mostly lads on it and some were using female names to try to spice up the conversations. They said I should try a female name, unaware that I was female using my real name which happened to be a male one! Must say I had a bit of fun before they realised exactly who I was! So to sum up, chat rooms was why I bought a PC in the first place. But I must say I love this list as it is so nice to have lots of people to chat with when you are stuck in the house with DS, especially when he is sleeping. Thanks everybody Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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