This allows many people to speak and at once without needing to connect to each other. The moderator then sends that same message out to every other user who is telephoned in. Every time someone wants to send a message, they send the message to the moderator. All of these people use their telephone and call a person we'll call the moderator (this is the IRC server). Imagine there's a lot of people you want to talk to, but they're all in different locations in the world. Let me know if there's anything else you're wondering.įor a more technical explanation of it, like you're five: While channel operators can ban people from specific channels, IRC operators can ban people from the entire network. Anybody who wants can found an IRC network and try to get people to use it the people who run the network are called IRC Operators or "opers". But there are hundreds of different IRC networks, each completely separate from the others #Ducks on the EFnet network is totally separate from #Ducks on the DALnet network. You can also designate other users as "operators" or "ops", which function like moderators on a forum they too can kick/ban people who act like jerks.Īn IRC network can have hundreds or thousands of different channels on it, each run by different people with different ops. As the creator of the channel, you have the ability to kick other users out of the channel and ban them from returning. You could wander onto EFnet (one of the major IRC networks), and create your own #Saxopwn channel. Typically, any user can create their own channel. Additionally, anybody can initiate a one-to-one chat with any other user on the network. You can be in as many channels as you like simultaneously each will have their own tab on your IRC program, like websites in a browser. Everything you type is visible by those 30 people, and everything they type is visible to you. So you enter the #Cooking channel, where there are 30 other people. Channels are named with a hash beginning them for example, #Cars or #Politics or #Cooking. IRC networks have many different channels on them an IRC channel is the original "chatroom". IRC is a way for groups of people to chat to each other.įirst, you connect to an IRC network.
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