Internet Relay Chat

The graphical user interface of MIRC, the most popular Internet Relay Chat client.

Internet Relay Chat (or IRC) is one of the oldest protocols for online chatting and file sharing.

Some collaborative projects use it to facilitate communication between project members. Wikipedia and Conservapedia both use freenode (chat.us.freenode.net) as their IRC server.

Some IRC channels

• #conservapedia
• #conservapedia-sysop (password required)
• #wikipedia

IRC Help

Most clients still use the old slash commands of irc. Here are a few.

1. To get onto freenode.net
   • /server irc.freenode.net
2. To join the channel
   • /join #conservapedia
3. To change your nickname
   • /nick newnick
4. To op someone This will only work if you are op(erator of the channel) at the time
   • /cs op #conservapedia nick
5. to deop
   • /dop #conservapedia nick
6. To set the topic
   • /topic new topic here