Cheshire Network Services
Frequently Asked Questions
Internet Relay Chat, or IRC, is a protocol for real-time chatting and file transfer on the internet. The largest IRC network is efnet, which usually has as many as 4,000 users on over 1,000 channels active at any one time. You can use IRC from an IRC client like MIRC, or you can use irc from your UNIX shell account.
Useful IRC WWW links: