Internet Relay Chat; It's how hackers talk when they don't want to be overheard. It's a pretty primitive chat program. Think of it like shipping channels in the ocean: you can't see them until a boat cuts through the water leaving a wake. If two boats meet in the middle of the ocean to swap a load of illegal drugs, you have to catch them in realtime. Otherwise there's no record of the meeting left behind.
***connecting to port_6667 of #channel irc
***loading .ircr version 2.9.5+Cr17f+F08
***users on #channel: @the_fist, @00zemeister
> the_fist G07 4 5urpr153 4 U
***loading .ircr version 2.9.5+Cr17f+F08
***users on #channel: @the_fist, @00zemeister
> the_fist G07 4 5urpr153 4 U
by Numb3rs lol November 14, 2009
Internet Relay Chat
-designed to make chatting as discouraging as possible for the casual user. Its windows95 style interface and text-only format on black or white backgrounds make it feel lifeless and dull. When one first opens IRC, one can only stare into the blank black screen; there is no welcome window and no cute little sound to tell you your friends are on. All this, designed with the intention
of keeping out: da n00bzours.
-designed to make chatting as discouraging as possible for the casual user. Its windows95 style interface and text-only format on black or white backgrounds make it feel lifeless and dull. When one first opens IRC, one can only stare into the blank black screen; there is no welcome window and no cute little sound to tell you your friends are on. All this, designed with the intention
of keeping out: da n00bzours.
Lonely men and women sit in silence before their computers at night, staring maniacally as pages of text scrolls before their eyes. The phrases and gestures, pleading and begging for attention, only hint at life, but this is almost forgotten as you bark off a laugh after a good exchange. But as the jokes and laughter subside you realize you are sitting alone in your underwear at 3am, laughing in the dark. This is the state of being that is; IRC.
by puadxe January 12, 2007
Although I mostly use AIM, because everyone has it, IRC is for the more advanced user, you hardly ever see any n00bs on any channels.
by SCANK May 09, 2005
IRC is a colossal time waster. Its a place to go chat instead of having a social life. I've replaced studying for exams with IRC
by mikeshoup November 18, 2004
1) Where you go to talk with other sophisticated beings like yourself for free on your own personal computer.
2) The place where dreams will become a reality and your life will be forever enjoyable.
3) A colossal time waster.
2) The place where dreams will become a reality and your life will be forever enjoyable.
3) A colossal time waster.
by jmm June 30, 2003
IRC, or internet relay chat. Connects aliented intellectuals via a scrolling text based medium, where they lurk in silence.
by Jesse March 19, 2005
Internet Relay Chat. IRC is a chat protocol that can have many people talking in one channel (though messaging another person is normally supported).
IRC is not that hard to set up. You can download a client (or use Java, whatever suits you), then connect to a server, register your name, join a channel, and things go on from there.
Oh, IRC has plenty of noobs. And most of the discussion in IRC is normally just really stupid stuff (see below).
IRC is not that hard to set up. You can download a client (or use Java, whatever suits you), then connect to a server, register your name, join a channel, and things go on from there.
Oh, IRC has plenty of noobs. And most of the discussion in IRC is normally just really stupid stuff (see below).
H0tch1k203 has joined #randomchannelol
<toughk1dlol> whoa a gurl! hotchik wanna cyber?
<H0tch1k203> eww on irc? dats gros
H0tch1k203 has left #randomchannelol
<toughk1dlol> lol i am teh l33t
<randomkid> penis!lol
<urmom> lol penis!1
<toughk1dlol> whoa a gurl! hotchik wanna cyber?
<H0tch1k203> eww on irc? dats gros
H0tch1k203 has left #randomchannelol
<toughk1dlol> lol i am teh l33t
<randomkid> penis!lol
<urmom> lol penis!1
by Just Him August 17, 2006