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 ...

For me IRC is, quite litteraly, a myth. I recall, during the late 90's and early 2000's, hearing and reading wonders about IRC communities and channel. Lots of sites I read then had their channel. So ...

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 ...

Internet Relay Chat, a mainstay of Internet chatting, can provide an easy and free way to communicate with employees and clients. IRC can be accessed through telnet without any additional software on ...

Internet Relay Chat has been on the decline since 1999, but a new generation of teens around the world seem to be discovering the joys of anonymous chat rooms thanks to Turkish startup Connected2Me.

One of the web’s oldest functions remains one of its most powerful and promising. By John Herrman As we debate the negative effects of social media, consider the earliest and arguably most prevalent ...

Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles told an industry consultant Tuesday that he has not yet given up on Mt. Gox and has not made plans to step down. Karpeles made the statements in an Internet ...

Skype started life as an easy way for regular PC users to chat with their friends via text and voice chat. But underneath that user-friendly veneer, Skype has a few power moves ready and waiting for ...

The first real-time online chat tool, Internet Relay Chat was developed by Jarkko Oikarinen in Finland. IRC's popularity really took off in 1991, when Iraq invaded Kuwait and radio and TV signals were ...

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 ...

As we debate the negative effects of social media, consider the earliest and arguably most prevalent way that we use the internet to connect with other people: the chat. Networked chatting predates ...