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  2. mIRC - Wikipedia

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    mIRC ( Arabic: إم آي آر سي) is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for Windows. It is a fully functional chat utility and its integrated scripting language makes it extensible and versatile. [3] The software was first released in 1995 and has since been described as "one of the most popular IRC clients available for Windows."

  3. IRC - Wikipedia

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    IRC ( Internet Relay Chat) is a text-based chat system for instant messaging. IRC is designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, [1] but also allows one-on-one communication via private messages [2] as well as chat and data transfer, [3] including file sharing.

  4. Web chat - Wikipedia

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    Web chat. A web chat is a text-based system that allows users to communicate in real-time using easily accessible web interfaces. It is a type of Internet online chat distinguished by its simplicity and accessibility to users who do not wish to take the time to install and learn to use specialized chat software. [1]

  5. EFnet - Wikipedia

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    10224 (30 September 2023) Average channels. 6437 (30 September 2023) Average servers. 60. Content/subject. Public / unrestricted. EFnet or Eris-Free network is a major Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network, with more than 35,000 users. [1] It is the modern-day descendant of the original IRC network.

  6. ICQ - Wikipedia

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    ICQ was among the first stand-alone instant messenger (IM) applications—while real-time chat was not in itself new (Internet Relay Chat [IRC] being the most common platform at the time), the concept of a fully centralized service with individual user accounts focused on one-on-one conversations set the blueprint for later instant messaging ...

  7. Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients - Wikipedia

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    The Direct Client-to-Client Protocol (DCC) has been the primary method of establishing connections directly between IRC clients for a long time now. Once established, DCC connections bypass the IRC network and servers, allowing for all sorts of data to be transferred between clients including files and direct chat sessions.

  8. Comparison of instant messaging protocols - Wikipedia

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    YMSG ( Yahoo! Messenger ) ^ a b One-to-many / many-to-many communications primarily comprise presence information, publish/subscribe and groupchat distribution. Some technologies have the ability to distribute data by multicast, avoiding bottlenecks on the sending side caused by the number of recipients.

  9. Mibbit - Wikipedia

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    Mibbit is a web-based client for web browsers [2] that supports Internet Relay Chat (IRC), [3] Yahoo! Messenger, [4] and Twitter. [5] [6] It is developed by Jimmy Moore [7] and is designed around the Ajax model [8] with a user interface written in JavaScript. [2] It is the IRC application setup by default on Firefox .