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 ...

Chat-aholics are usually happy people, except for that one day a month when the bill arrives. On that day, the conversations online go something like this: “Sheesh!!! ::shuddering:: How could I have ...

A newly documented Linux botnet named SSHStalker is using the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) communication protocol for command-and-control (C2) operations.

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) has lost 60 percent of its users, going from 1 million in 2003 to about 400,000 today. And IRC channels? In 2003 there were 500,000; now there is half that number. This is ...

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 ...

Descent! I also want to talk about that game. In fact, I wouldn't mind an entire article about Lee's approach after being banned for being a fucking newbie, but I realize the business model of ...

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 ...

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 ...