Now, it seems everyone wants to take part in the online chatting experience. After being used extensively in the Gulf War of 1991 as a way to quickly disperse real-time information to many users at once, IRC is now used by thousands of people every day as a virtual meeting place in which to discuss various issues of the day.
Users enter specific channels in which a specific subject or theme is usually predominant.
Channels can be either public, where anybody on the Internet can join, or private, in which two people can carry on a private conversation. For more extensive information on the usage of IRC chat, feel free to refer to the Internet Relay Chat Help Site at irchelp.org. Popular IRC clients are mIRC for Windows and IRCle for Mac users. In order to use IRC, you will have to tell your IRC client which IRC server to connect to. There are plenty of servers across the world, all connected to form one large IRC network.