IRC User's Survival Guide

IRC is a widely used Internet service that allows anyone to exchange typed lines of text in real time with other users all over the world by connecting to an IRC server. Messages may be sent privately (to one user) or to a channel (which may have several users).

This introduction will focus on "vanilla IRC", mostly as defined in RFC 1459 and/or implemented on IRCnet. Aspects specific to other networks, such as channel services or exotic modes, will be avoided; they cause a lot more confusion (*** umodes available oiwsabjgrchytxkmnpeAEGFSLX, channel modes available +abceiklmnoprstvMNL - good grief) and other problems than they prevent anyway. Even if you prefer a network that runs a modified version of ircd (the original IRC server software), you will probably recognize the core IRC functionality described in this document.

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