Although kids these days tend to hang out on so-called “Social Media”, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) was first, by decades. IRC is a real-time communication technology that allows people to socialize ...

Despite the name, there's more to Internet Relay Chat than chat - you can also use it to download files. In fact, since major media junkies tap into this old-school, text-based Internet forum, almost ...

Internet Relay Chat, or IRC, is the grand-daddy of group chat applications, but it's far from the most inviting and easy-to-grasp apps out there. Mibbit, a free web-based IRC client, aims to change ...

New Israeli startup IRSeek is indexing public Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels at the rate of 6 million conversations a day. 300 million conversations have now been indexed by the company. The most ...

This outrage shows that modern solutions must be designed resiliently to enable service provisioning during incidents. There are multiple solutions to develop high-available and reliable services that ...

I grew up in the 2000s, so it might be a surprising statement when I say that much of my introduction to the internet, technology, and gaming came from Internet Relay Chat, also known as IRC. As a kid ...

A hacker based in Romania has launched a major distributed denial-of-service attack, forcing one of the largest Internet Relay Chat networks, Undernet, to shut down much of its service, system ...

The Fizzer computer virus is causing headaches for more than just its victims. The mass-mailing computer virus, which continued to spread on Wednesday, nearly overwhelmed several Internet relay chat ...

Internet Relay Chat, or IRC, is a protocol that allows users that connect to Internet Relay Chat Servers to have converstaions with others in real time. Users connect to IRC Servers using an IRC ...

Wow, talk about a dinosaur! IRC seems like it has been around since the dawn of time. Without dating myself, I still remember logging into BBSs back in the eighties and nineties and getting help in ...