IRC

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Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet chat or synchronous conferencing. It is mainly designed for group (many-to-many) communication in discussion forums called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication and data transfers via private message.

IRC was created by Jarkko "WiZ" Oikarinen in late August 1988 to replace a program called MUT (MultiUser talk) on a BBS called OuluBox in Finland. Oikarinen found inspiration in a chat system known as Bitnet Relay, which operated on the BITNET.

IRC gained prominence when it was used to report on the Soviet coup attempt of 1991 throughout a media blackout. It was previously used in a similar fashion by Kuwaitis during the Iraqi invasion. Relevant logs are available from ibiblio archive.

IRC client software is available for virtually every computer operating system.

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The OLPC Community uses a series of channels in the irc.freenode.net network:

• #olpc — general contact point for all things olpc
• #olpc-content — content related matters
• #sugar — Sugar related matters
• Some other channels used (or of interest) are:
  • #olpc-peru — Peru and OLPC Spanish America subjects (most likely to be in Spanish)
  • #OLPC-Dictionary — related to the omegawiki.org children's dictionary for the olpc
  • #tam_tam — related to TamTam ( — is it active? )