This Year Our Adoption of IRC Turns 18. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 04, 2026. The other night I had a bad dream. I dreamt that our IRC network had been targetted and attacked ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last year marked the 30th anniversary of the Internet Relay Chat protocol (IRC) and it is hard to imagine that [Jarkko Oikarinen] could have foreseen the impact his invention would one day have on the ...

A hacker based in Romania has launched a major distributed denial-of-service attack, forcing one of the largest Internet Relay Chat networks, Undernet, to shut down much of its service, system ...

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, ...

The most recent actions by Anonymous, it seems – which have largely gone unreported by the mainstream media – were against pro-Tunisian government sites earlier this month. The attacks were peripheral ...

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 ...

August 14, 2023 — “We are devastated by yet another completely preventable tragedy in the English Channel over the weekend. Our thoughts are with the victims, their families, and the survivors of the ...

Find out how to reconnect to Slack over IRC using a Bitlbee libpurple plugin. I'm an IRC kind of guy. I appreciate the simplicity of pure text chat, emoticons instead of emojis, and the vast array of ...