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 ...

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 ...

NBC News has published new documents from the National Security Agency trove provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The latest revelation is that British intelligence agency GCHQ conducted ...

Taking your shoes off at the airport. A lone bag sitting on a park bench. A plane flying a little too low. The faint thought in the back of your mind, now and always, that it could all descend into ...

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 ...

War rages between competing factions within the hacker collective Anonymous after this weekend’s drama-filled takeover of the main Anonymous IRC server network. That network, used by Anons to plan and ...

A new Internet Relay Channel (IRC) bot, which is built with the help of the Perl language-based Shellbot, is targeting Windows-based environments, along with Ubuntu Linux and even Android devices, ...

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a service layer system that eases communication in text. The chat process operates on a client/server networking pattern. Computer programs that anyone can install on ...

To me, IRC is the ideal interface for quick communication with my friends. I keep a console IRC session (irssi) running on my server at all times within screen. With that setup, I constantly can lurk ...

In this article, we will talk about some best free IRC client software for Windows 11/10 computers. Using these software, you can chat with any other IRC client user(s). IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a ...