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What ever happened to IRC?

IRC usage has been declining steadily since 2003, losing 60 percent of its users (from 1 million to about 400,000 in 2021) and half of its channels (from half a million in 2003 to under 200,000 in 2021).

What is IRC network?

IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a protocol for real-time text messaging between internet-connected computers created in 1988. It is mainly used for group discussion in chat rooms called “channels” although it supports private messages between two users, data transfer, and various server-side and client-side commands.

What is an example of IRC?

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a chat system on the Internet. There are small IRC servers (for example, OperaNet) to medium IRC servers (freenode and DalNet, which have about 30,000 users) and big IRC servers (for example, EFNet, UnderNet, which have over 100,000 users).

What is IRC chat like?

In short, IRC is text based chat. Simple text. You can have one on one chat as well, but in order to get to know someone you first have to enter “main room”. This is slightly different than messengers where you can start (or at least try to start) conversations one on one.

What are the different types of IRC networks?

There are other major networks, including EFnet, Quakenet, DALnet and others, but you’re going to have to dig. IRC tends a be a rough neighborhood in internet terms. You’ll see a list of servers you can connect to on the network’s home page.

Is it possible to make IRC private?

IRC servers can be private. I’ve used them at several firms. You can do a seminar-style by making the channel moderated and requiring people to private message questions. Advantage of this format for the listeners is that they can private message each other, which many substitute chat types do not offer. You can make channels private.

How do companies use IRC for employee communication?

Many companies use IRC as way of having employee community. Set up internal IRC server or use external one and let all the employee log in in relevant channels. So, there you can ask queries\\discuss work and so on. Now, even there are other chat programs as well but they work one on one.