Internet Relay Chat

IRC may be the oldest chat-protocol ever on the internet. It pre-dates the world wide web, but is still used on a large scale. IRC links a couple of IRC servers together, and allows users to create and participate in chatboxes using their IRC client. A few irc clients are:

• Windows:
  • MIrc, the most used irc client for windows
  • Mozilla, the full version comes with it's own irc client
• Unix:
  • ircII, very solid console based client
  • XChat, a graphical client for X
  • Mozilla, the full version comes with it's own irc client
• Mac:
  • XChat Aqua

The 'nieuwe media chatbox' is on the irc server 'irc.sonologic.nl', and the channel name is '#newmedia'. Most clients support the command '/server irc.sonologic.nl' for connecting to the server and '/join #newmedia' to join the channel. However, most graphical clients probably provide this functionality by some other means. If you can't figure it out, feel free to ask us!

-- KoenMartens - 19 May 2004