- Cross-platform
- Chatzilla is available as an add-on on SeaMonkey and Mozilla Firefox.
- Mibbit web ajax IRC client.
- Opera has a built-in IRC client.
- Pidgin is a multi-platform instant messaging client that supports IRC, as well as AIM, Yahoo, Facebook and several other protocols.
- Smuxi is a successor to irssi, a flexible, user-friendly and cross-platform IRC client for advanced users, built for the GNOME desktop.
- There are terminal-based IRC clients; some of the most popular include: WeeChat and irssi. Both of these clients have a wide range of features, extensions, and capabilities. Note that these clients are designed for UNIX-based systems such as Linux and OS X.
- There are several web clients with the ability to use IRC. Most often, they can be found on the websites of companies and organizations that use IRC to communicate with users. In such cases, access is granted only to one of the channels or to the network.
- HexChat is one of the most successful IRC clients for Linux; XChat. You will be able to find this program in the repository of your chosen Linux build. Unlike the previous XChat, HexChat is free program open source.
- For Windows
- mIRC is the most popular IRC client for Windows due to its ability simple change programs. Known as Shareware, and you will be able to use the program for 30 days and after that, but with a registration message for $20.
- While mIRC is the most popular. There are other free IRC clients: ClicksAndWhistles, IceChat and many other cross-platform IRC clients.
- For Linux
- hosts a large number of IRC clients for Linux
- Konversation is a popular KDE IRC client that is most often included in the widespread operating system Kubuntu.
- For Mac
- Popular Mac IRC clients include: Colloquy, Ircle, Snak and Linkinus. Colloquy is free and open source.
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Check the user manual for your IRC client. This way you can learn how to perform basic actions in your program.
The first thing you need to do is come up with a name under which you will communicate on IRC. You can use your real name or any other nickname you make up. More often than not, people do not reveal their real name to the public.
Very often the software will include a list of some of the most popular IRC servers in the world; you can join them if you haven't decided on a server yet. The name of the servers most often indicates the type of audience and users who communicate there. Popular servers (also known as networks), include EFNet, and QuakeNet (a network aimed at the gaming audience). These networks are visited by up to 100,000 users during the day. wikiHow has an IRC room on the freenode network. You can connect to one of these networks using your IRC client. IRC network addresses are similar to website addresses (eg irc.freenode.net). Select a server and click on " Connect".
Congratulations! You have just connected to the IRC server! At the very beginning, information about the server will appear in front of you. You may find it useful to read parts of it, as there may be important notes and links to popular channels(see below). And also, this includes “terms of use”.
Download and install one of the many IRC clients available. The client is the program you use to chat. Wikipedia has done a comparative analysis of IRC clients, .
News organization
To make it easier to find the group of interest, all news is divided into topics and organized hierarchically, that is, similar issues are in lists next to each other. This structure resembles the directory structure of a hard drive. Programming in C, for example, is discussed in the news group comp.lang.c (here comp.lang is the hierarchy, and c is the name of the conference). Programming in Pascal is nearby, in the same hierarchy, but the group, as you might guess, is called pascal. Drawings are published in the alt.binaries.clip-art hierarchy (alt.binaries is the name of the hierarchy, clip-art is the name of the group). You can get acquainted with the work of poets and writers in Russian in the teleconference relcom.arts.qwerty, and with the dollar exchange rate in the conference with the characteristic name relcom.currency.
Teleconference subscription
The most pleasant feature of the subscription is its complete automation - servicing subscribers around the clock special program(news server - newsserver). At any time of the day you can subscribe to the topic you like or unsubscribe.
Since in many conferences (especially commercial ones) the volume of incoming materials is extremely large, you can subscribe only to the announcement titles (which is much cheaper), and then order articles of interest from them.
What is USENET
USENET is a community of people exchanging messages (or articles) within one or more newsgroups.
The structure of USENET is many news servers under various organizations, but USENET itself is not an organization or a network. This service is extremely widespread due to the fact that it is supported by a large number of networks and protocols other than the Internet.
How servers interact with each other, what protocols and procedures to use - all this is ultimately determined by the administrators (newsmaster) of neighboring servers. At the same time, USENET does not mean complete freedom. There are certain rules for creating new groups, distributing articles, materials, etc.
ProtocolNNTP
NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol) - network protocol, used for messaging in teleconferences. The structure of this protocol is in many ways similar to the SMTP email protocol.
There is a variation of the NNTP protocol called NNRP (Network News Readers Protocol). It is designed for reading conferences from a news server by client software online. Functionally, NNTP is focused on the fact that articles are sent to subscribers when they appear on the server, and NNRP is based on a client request. Accordingly, NNTP is used to exchange messages between news servers, and NNRP is used to read messages from the news server and create new messages.
The NNTP protocol, like SMTP, is text-based. An important feature of the NNTP protocol is its efficiency in the case of complex graphs of connections between news servers. To prevent the same message from being sent multiple times, usually the sending server first reports the identifier of the new message, and sends the message itself only after the receiving party confirms that this message is not there yet
Often news servers keep one or more NNTP sessions open at all times, so as not to open them every time they receive new messages.
Internet Relay Chat
IRC (English Internet Relay Chat - relayed Internet chat) is a service system with which you can communicate via the Internet with other people in real time. In Russian computer slang, IRC is called “irka”, “irets”, as well as “mirk”, “mirka”.
IRC is a program that allows you to have live conversations from your keyboard with people around the world. It is very similar to an international radiotelephone - and even uses “channels”. As soon as a user enters a message on their computer, it will immediately appear around the world to everyone who happens to be on the same channel with them. The user can join an existing conversation or start their own. It is even possible to create a private channel for a small number of people - at least one or two.
IRC currently integrates systems in 20 different countries, from Australia to Hong Kong to Israel. When connecting to an IRC server, the user sees a list of available channels, each of which (or several at once) he can “enter” (connect). A channel is a virtual “room” that can contain multiple users. All messages issued to a channel are visible to all users who are only on the same channel. Each channel has its own name and, as a rule, a specific topic for discussion. After “entering” the channel, the user can see what other channel members are writing, and can also write messages himself. The topic discussed on the channel usually follows from its name (for example, the Wikipedia.ru channel).
IRC clients are:
For Unix-like operating systems: XChat, Kopete, irssi, kvirc and ircII;
For Windows systems: mIRC, XChat, irssi, kvirc;
For mobile phones(MIDP): jmirc-m, snirc.
For OS/2: OpenChat
IRC provides the opportunity for both group and private communication. Group chat on IRC provides channels where users can gather and communicate.
Channels, like rooms, can be open to everyone, but there are also closed channels that can be accessed with a key or by special invitation. The channel can even be secret: in this case, it is not visible in the list of channels and, in addition, no one outside can see who is in it. This creates good opportunities for private conversations that no one can interfere with.
Each person communicating on IRC has a nickname (Nick), by which he is known on IRC. One of the great things about IRC is that it allows for parallel communication.
Despite the complexity of the technical structure of IRC, communication itself relieves us of some of the difficulties characteristic of traditional methods of communication.
4.1. History of origin
The abbreviation "IRC" stands for "Internet Relay Chat" and is a system that allows users to communicate with other Internet users. IRC was originally developed in 1988 by Jarkko Oikarinen and spread throughout the world over the following years. Although the system was initially conceived as an extension of the talk program, designed for communication between two users of UNIX systems, the results exceeded all expectations - a new communication system was born that changed the lives of many people.
IRC began to gain particular popularity after Operation Desert Storm (1991), when messages from all over the world were collected in one place and broadcast online on IRC. IRC was used in a similar way in 1993, during the coup in Russia, when users from Moscow reported to the world in real time what was happening on the streets. What can IRC do? Firstly, the joy of communication. People come to IRC to have a good time - for example, MTV or Zhurnal.ru periodically organize conferences on IRC, where famous musicians or writers are invited. On IRC you can find new friends; chat on professional topics, discuss the latest film and much more. There are real-time learning technologies that use IRC.
Advantages and disadvantagesIRC
The main advantages of IRC are:
IRC consumes a very small amount of traffic, which is especially important with a limited Internet tariff plan.
IRC allows the user to communicate with many people from other cities and countries.
IRC is an opportunity to make permanent online acquaintances and recognize them when they appear on IRC.
IRC is a flexible tool for people to appreciate your ingenuity, resourcefulness, and sophistication.
Delays when working with IRC do not exceed a few seconds. This happens due to the fact that the computer does not need to establish dozens of connections with other countries - it is enough to connect to the nearest IRC server.
Unfortunately, the IRC system is not without its drawbacks.
Sadly, it has become a kind of meeting place for the most unpleasant personalities, whose goal is not to communicate with other people, but to spoil their mood. They do this with the help of various kinds of dirty tricks, such as sending programs with “surprises” (malevolent bots), flooding (sending large amounts of data or repeating a certain sequence of actions that interfere with the conversation of other users), all kinds of pompous tirades, curses - in general, who knows what. There are many ways to protect yourself from such people, but getting rid of them completely is very difficult. Operators control order on the IRC network.
Why are operators needed?
Channel operators are the main ones on an IRC channel. They are distinguished by the "@" symbol before the alias. Typically, operator status can be freely transferred (or taken away) by other operators. An operator (or op for short) can kick (throw out) other users from a channel, block entry to a specific channel using some kind of mask, etc. Operator status is only valid within one channel.
IRC operators are the managers of IRC networks. As a rule, these are administrators of IRC servers; they do not interfere in internal conflicts and only remind of their presence when someone tries to interfere with the normal operation of the IRC network. The IRC operator can “kick” a user out of the network or even completely block access to the IRC network.
Connection toIRC
To work with IRC you need a special client program. For Unix systems, the most common client is XChat. For Windows this is the mIRC program. It is so easy to set up and install that 90% use it and often unknowing people call IRC a little world. Next you need to connect to the server. To do this, you need to type /server www.server.net address.
After connecting to the server, you can find the right person and communicate with him. You can also join a channel. Communication on the channel is similar to communication between people in a room. Someone speaks and everyone hears him. Each channel has a name that reflects the general topic of the conversation. It can be either a topic that interests everyone, or just some name that unites everyone. If in the first case conversations are usually conducted around the specified topic, then in the second case conversations are conducted on completely different topics.
Bots are programs that connect to an IRC server and can perform special operations. In addition to supporting operator status, bots can perform the functions of a message board, can display information about a user visiting a channel, and have many other useful functions.
If questions arise, but there is a specialized #help channel to answer questions, it exists on any self-respecting server or network. It is possible to create and moderate a channel on IRC yourself.
IRC-networks
The IRC client program establishes a connection to the nearest IRC server. IRC servers are interconnected. Thus, it turns out to be a kind of “network within a network” - you just need to connect to any of its servers to start communicating. Channel names begin with a hash ("#"), this is a common convention.
In order to select a channel, you can use the list offered by the client program. The IRC network consists of servers. The server can be connected to other servers. A collection of servers connected to each other forms a network. Initially, there was only one IRC network, but later it split into several parts (IRCnet, EFNet), new networks appeared (GalaxyNet, Undernet, others) and this process continues.
Teleconferences Usenet
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Email address can be obtained on the mail server Email teleconference mailing lists ICQ service file archives search servers IRC service
An email address consists of two parts, where to whom email mailing lists teleconferences ICQ service file archives search servers IRC service
Advantages 1. high speed forwarding 2. forwards not only text, but also... 3. a letter can be sent to several recipients at once 4. you can turn on an answering machine 5. you can create rules for performing actions with similar messages (black list of advertising addresses) e-mail mailing lists teleconferences ICQ service file archives search servers IRC service
SMTP -Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Establishes two-way communication between sender and recipient mail message: The sender initiates the connection and sends service requests, and the receiver responds to these requests. e-mail mailing lists teleconferences ICQ service file archives search servers IRC service
POP3 -Post Office Protocol, version 3 Designed to forward mail from users' mailboxes on a mail server to their workplaces. Messages can be received, but cannot be sent. e-mail mailing lists teleconferences ICQ service file archives search servers IRC service
1. Create an email message on your local computer 2. Connect to the Internet, deliver the message to your mailbox on a remote mail server 3. Delivery to the recipient's mail server 4. The recipient connects to the Internet and delivers mail from his mailbox on local computer e-mail mailing lists teleconferences ICQ service file archives search servers IRC service
Mailing lists - These are special topic servers that collect information on certain topics and forward it to subscribers in the form of email messages. e-mail mailing lists teleconferences IRC service ICQ service file archives search servers
Conference email address subscriber Each participant receives all materials to their email address Each email subscriber reaches all participants e-mail mailing lists teleconferences ICQ service file archives search servers IRC service
The sheer volume of messages in newsgroups makes targeted monitoring difficult. Therefore, in some groups a preliminary “screening out” of useless information is carried out. Such conferences are called moderated. The moderator can be either a person or a special program that filters messages by keywords. e-mail mailing lists teleconferences ICQ service file archives search servers IRC service
IRC service Designed for direct communication between several people in real time. Communication takes place within one channel, in which only a few people take part. Each user can create their own channel and invite other participants to it. - Internet Relay Chat chat conference The most popular client program for working with the IRC service is mIRC.exe e-mail mailing lists teleconferences ICQ service file archives search servers IRC service
I seek you ICQ Service Designed for searching network IP address person connected to this moment to the Internet. The need for such a service is due to the fact that most Internet users have a dynamic IP address. - acronym for expression - I'm looking for you e-mail mailing lists teleconferences ICQ service file archives search servers IRC service
ICQ Service To use this service, you must register on its central server and receive a personal identification number UIN. This number inform your contact partners, then the ICQ service takes on the character of an Internet pager. You can contact your partner by UIN number, the IP address will be determined by the central ICQ server. e-mail mailing lists teleconferences ICQ service file archives search servers IRC service
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IRC (Internet Relay Chat)- a service system with which you can communicate through Internet network with other people in real time. It was created in 1988 by Finnish student Jarko Oikarinen. In Russian computer slang, IRC is called “mirk” (tracing copy of the name of the most popular client - the program mIRC) .
IRC consists of servers. The server can be connected to other servers. A collection of servers connected to each other forms an IRC network. There are many networks in the world. The oldest and most famous are IRCNet and EfNet, formed from the split first IRC network.
To work with IRC you need a special program - a client. For Windows systems, the client is the program mIRC, which is easy to configure and install and therefore 90% of users use this program.
IRC provides the opportunity for both group and private communication. For group chat in IRC are intended channels, where users can gather and communicate. Communication is like communicating between people in a room - someone speaks and everyone hears him. Each channel has a name that reflects the general topic of the conversation. It can be either a topic that interests everyone, or just some name that unites everyone. If in the first case conversations are usually conducted around the specified topic, then in the second case conversations are conducted on completely different topics.
In addition to ordinary users of the IRC network, there are so-called channel operators and network operators. Channel operators are moderators, who keep order. They can block access to a channel without an invitation, exclude a user from the channel, give him ban(prohibition of entry to the channel) and much more. In the classic case, the channel operator is the one who first enters the channel and thereby creates it. Such channels have permanent operators. In order for them to receive operator status when entering the channel, those who are usually constantly sitting on the channel are used bots(robots), which have operator status and can distribute it to certain users.
IRC bots are programs that connect to an IRC server and can perform special operations. In addition to maintaining operator status, bots can perform the functions of a message board, display information about a user visiting a channel, etc.
IRC network operators- These are administrators who manage the operation of the network as a whole. They have the power to exclude a user from the server and prohibit him from logging into a particular server or even all servers on the network. However, as a rule, in IRC networks, restrictions are usually set for operators at the level of network rules, netiquette, or even at the level of IRC services ( IRC services).
IRC services are utility bots on IRC that typically include:
NickServ - service that manages users;
ChanServ - service that manages channels;
MemoServ - a service that allows you to send notes when the user is offline;
OperServ (RootServ) - a service that allows network operators to manage it;
Global - used to notify about server events;
HelpServ - Provides help for IRC services.
Also some versions of services contain:
BotServ - provides the opportunity for channel owners to invite bots to the channel;
HostServ (sometimes included in NickServ) - a service that allows you to change the user's real IP to a specific mask;
StatServ - statistics service;
DevNull - ignores all sent data;
SeenServ - displays data about the last time the user appeared on the server.
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