Internet Relay Chat

Short introduction

IRC is a worldwide party line network that allows one to converse with others in real time. IRC is structured as a network of Internet servers, each of which accepts connections from client programs, one per user. The conversation takes place on channels or via private message. Therefore every user has to pick a unique nickname.
The IRC community and the USENET and MUD communities overlap to some extent, including both hackers and regular folks who have discovered the wonders of computer networks. Some USENET jargon has been adopted on IRC, as have some conventions such as emoticons.
Most of this information is taken out of the Jargon File.

Information on the WWW

INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES:

• IRC Related Resources on the Internet
  http://ftp.acsu.buffalo.edu/irc/WWW/ircdocs.html
  One of the most complete and comprehensive World Wide Web documents indexing IRC information resources. Unfortunately it's a bit out of date.
• Internet Relay Chat information
  http://www2.undernet.org:8080/~cs93jtl/IRC.html
  Another good site of IRC pages, with a large Undernet section.
• IRC II command help:
  • IRC II-Command-Help V1.3
    http://www.lut.fi/ref/ircMANUAL/main.HTML
  • /help
    http://www2.undernet.org:8080/~cs93jtl/irciihelp.html
• IRC-Server Status
  http://www.pvv.unit.no/~borud/irc/irc_servere.html
• Internet Relay Chat FAQ
  http://www.kei.com/irc.html
  Not very good, but has a lot of links to ftp sites etc.
• Overview of other IRC-networks besides the EFnet:
  • The Undernet
    http://www2.undernet.org:8080/~cs93jtl/Undernet.html
  • The DALnet
    http://www.dal.net/
• List of all IRC nets
  http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/networks/
• RFC 1459 - Internet Relay Chat Protocol
  http://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1459.txt

GERMAN RESOURCES:

• Internet Relay Chat - German Web Pages
  http://internet.relay.pages.de/
• IRC - Internet Relay Chat
  http://www.leo.org/infosys/rec/irc/

Pictures:

INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES:

• IRC pictures
• The IRC Gallery

GERMAN RESOURCES:

• RP München, Summer 1991
• RP Passau, Winter 1991
• RP Berlin, Summer 1992
• RP Karlsruhe, Winter 1992
• RP Zürich, Summer 1993
• RP Ulm, Summer 1993
• RP Aachen II, Winter 1993
• RP Dresden I, Summer 1994
• RP Stuttgart, Winter 1994

IRC related news-groups:

• alt.irc - Internet Relay Chat material
• alt.irc.announce - Announcements about Internet Relay Chat
• alt.irc.bots - Daemons on the Internet Relay Chat
• alt.irc.hottub - Discussion of the IRC channel #hottub
• alt.irc.ircii - IRC, the sequel.
• alt.irc.opers
• alt.irc.questions - How-to questions for IRC
• alt.irc.recovery
• alt.irc.undernet - The alternative IRC
• de.comm.chatsystems - Offline-Chat und verwandte Krankheiten