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DALnet is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network made up of 39 servers, with a stable population of approximately 10,000 users in about 4,000 channels. [ 1 ] DALnet is accessible by connecting with an IRC client to an active DALnet server on ports 6660 through 6669, and 7000.
IRC services is a set of features implemented on many Internet Relay Chat networks. ... This service is often renamed to the name of the network (e.g. DalNet or Xevium).
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]
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.
Robert Levin, [56] also known as lilo, was the founder of the Freenode IRC network and Executive Director of the PDPC charity that helped fund Freenode. [15] From 1994 onwards, Levin worked to encourage the use of IRC for free software and open-source projects. Levin was one of the founders of the Open Projects Network (OPN), and later of the PDPC.
UnrealIRCd was originally based on DALnet's DreamForge IRCd, "a now deprecated IRC server that was the predecessor to the actively maintained Bahamut server." [5] On July 13, 2007, Carsten V. Munk (stskeeps), [6] the founder of the UnrealIRCd project, [7] announced that a future v4.0 would be a fork of InspIRCd. Later on, this idea was dropped. [8]
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Visual IRC (ViRC) is an open-source Internet Relay Chat client for the Windows operating system. Unlike many other IRC clients , nearly all of the functionality in ViRC is driven by the included IRC script , with the result that the program's behavior can be extended or changed without altering the source code .