• tables compare general and technical information between a number of notable IRC client programs which have been discussed in independent, reliable prior...
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    server or exiting the client. Chat room Client-to-client protocol Comparison of instant messaging protocols Comparison of IRC clients The Hamnet Players...
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    with this powerful ... software". Comparison of IRC Clients "Nettalk - www.ntalk.de - IRC-Client". Retrieved 2013-03-23. "Nettalk (review)". NetzWelt...
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    the oldest IRC client still maintained. Several other UNIX IRC clients, including BitchX, EPIC, and ScrollZ, were originally forks of ircII. It was the...
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  • Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client published by Northwest Computer Services. Its name is an acronym – PolarGeek's IRC Hack. The last version of the program, known...
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  • and James Wheare. Comparison of IRC clients IRC all the way down (ZNC + IRCCloud + Quassel) "Meet IRC Cloud, an always connected IRC bouncer that is synced...
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  • An IRC bot is a set of scripts or an independent program that connects to Internet Relay Chat as a client, and so appears to other IRC users as another...
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  • IRC It, or ii is a free and open-source Unix IRC client written in C by the suckless.org community. From the readme: ii is a minimalist FIFO and filesystem-based...
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    BitchX (redirect from IRC/BitchX)
    BitchX /ˈbɪtʃɛks/ is a free IRC client that has been regarded as the most popular ircII-based IRC client. The initial implementation, written by "Trench"...
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    Rcirc (category IRC clients)
    rcirc is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client written in Emacs Lisp. It is one of two IRC clients included in GNU Emacs since release 22.1, alongside ERC...
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    Smuxi (category IRC clients)
    front-end clients have been closed. The combination of screen and Irssi served as an example of this architecture. The Quassel IRC client has a similar...
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  • the IRC client on signon was not verified with the ident service. Scalability issue: The protocol gets increasingly inefficient with the number of contacts...
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    Irssi (redirect from IRC/irssi)
    Chat (IRC) client program for Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Microsoft Windows. It was originally written by Timo Sirainen, and released under the terms of the...
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    Adam (October 19, 2009). "Large IRC Clients". Tom's Hardware. "10 of the Best Free Linux IRC Clients : Quassel IRC". LinuxLinks.com. August 30, 2009...
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    open-source IRC, SILC, ICB and XMPP client for Mac OS X. Colloquy uses its own core, known as Chat Core, although in the past it used Irssi as its IRC protocol...
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  • IRCd (redirect from K-line (IRC))
    outbound to an IRC channel. The server listens to connections from IRC clients on a set of TCP ports. When the server is part of an IRC network, it also...
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  • BNC (software) (redirect from Bouncer (IRC))
    companies offer hosted IRC bouncer services: IRCCloud is an IRC bouncer based on proprietary software, with its own web and mobile IRC clients. It is developed...
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  • Bersirc (category IRC clients)
    and open-source software portal Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients "Bersirc IRC Client - Bersirc - Open Source IRC". 12 August 2005. Archived from...
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  • PJIRC (category IRC clients)
    Turkish, and Ukrainian. Free and open-source software portal Comparison of IRC clients Web chat "PJIRC: About". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15...
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  • Client-to-client protocol (CTCP) is a special type of communication between Internet Relay Chat (IRC) clients. CTCP is a common protocol implemented by...
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    HexChat (redirect from IRC/XChat)
    io. Announcement of HexChat Posted on 06 Jul, 2012 "Shareware background". hexchat.github.io. "Announcement". HexChat - IRC client. July 6, 2012. Retrieved...
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    is one of two IRC clients included in the Emacs distribution; rcirc is the other. Circe and the "ascetic" ZenIRC are also Emacs-based IRC clients. According...
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    ChatZilla (redirect from Mozilla IRC chat)
    ChatZilla is an IRC client that is part of SeaMonkey. It was previously an extension for Mozilla-based browsers such as Firefox, introduced in 2000. It...
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  • the service, as of June 16, 2022. List of XMPP clients Comparison of instant messaging clients Comparison of IRC clients Comparison of instant messaging...
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  • independently from the IRC server. Originally designed to be used with ircII it is now supported by many IRC clients. Some peer-to-peer clients on napster-protocol...
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    Pidgin (software) (redirect from Purple irc)
    application Comparison of instant messaging protocols Comparison of cross-platform instant messaging clients Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients Online...
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    Konversation (category Free IRC clients)
    Konversation is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client built on the KDE Platform and is free software released under the terms of the GNU GPL-2.0-or-later. Konversation...
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  • reserved for their mail-client counterparts. For a comparison of such counterparts see comparison of email clients and Comparison of Usenet newsreaders. Support...
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    ICQ (category Instant messaging clients)
    These clients included: Adium: supports ICQ, Yahoo!, AIM, MSN, Google Talk, XMPP, and others, for macOS Ayttm: supports ICQ, Yahoo!, AIM, MSN, IRC, and...
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    BitlBee (category IRC)
    cross-platform IRC instant messaging gateway, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. BitlBee communicates with the user via the IRC protocol...
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