X-Nico

4 unusual facts about Internet Relay Chat


DEFCAD

DEFCAD began as a respository where users could upload and download CAD models, but quickly became a community with the addition of an IRC channel and public forums.

Kemetic Orthodoxy

These may be held entirely in person, or may be simulcast via Internet Relay Chat.

Logfile

Internet Relay Chat (IRC), instant messaging (IM) programs, peer-to-peer file sharing clients with chat functions, and multiplayer games (especially MMORPGs) commonly have the ability to automatically log (i.e. save) textual communication, both public (IRC channel/IM conference/MMO public/party chat messages) and private chat messages between users.

SLAY Radio

There are live shows where DJs and fans come together in an Internet Relay Chat channel while on air.


Ecocomposition

While a primary concern has been the relationship between the writing process and natural places, concepts of spatiality also apply to cyberspace and online writing—in MUDs, MOOs, Internet Relay Chat, Instant Messages, and e-mail (Syverson, 1999; Yagelski, 2002.

University of Oulu

The University of Oulu is known among hackers as the home of the Internet Relay Chat and for the File Transfer Protocol server x2ftp, named after the basement / blast shelter area in which it was physically located.


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