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== The Basics of IRC ==
=== The Basics of IRC ===IRC is also known as Internet Relay Chat. The principal of it is essentially to provide accessible chat rooms for people over the internet over multiple operating systems. To be able to connect and interact with IRC, one must first have an IRC client of some sort.
To be able to connect and interact with ===IRC, one must first have an IRC client of some sort. Clients===There is a wide variety of different IRC clients on all platforms. Here is a list of just a few:
* [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/16 Chatzilla] (Add-on for Firefox)
* [http://www.mirc.com/ mIRC] (Windows)
* [http://www.irssi.org/ irssi] (Windows/MacOS/Linux)
* [http://webchat.freenode.net/ Freenode] (Windows/MacOS/Linux (Web Based IRC)
* [http://www.hexchat.org/ HexChat] (Windows)
Once installed and running, you will have such options as connecting to various servers. We're particularly interested in the one which the seneca chatroom is located.