Join us on IRC

IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat and was the standard text-based communication protocol before various instant messengers like MSN Messenger, GTalk, or Skype were developed.

Many skilled computer users communicate via IRC because it offers them real-time asynchronous communication that isn’t scrutinized by a large corporate entity and it doesn’t lock them in into a single client

We, the CoderDojo Slovenia team, too use IRC for communication purposes!

Task

Join us on IRC, that is, on:

 irc://chat.freenode.org:7000/#coderdojo.si
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 protocol   server       port  channel

You can set up to autojoin #coderdojo.si in your favorite IRC client, such as multi-protocol Pidgin or similar:

• https://www.google.com/search?q=pidgin+set+up+irc
• https://www.google.com/search?q=pidgin+irc+autojoin

You can check the room out online, but we strongly advise setting it up in a standalone client.

Tip

You can even connect to IRC through telnet. Telnet is a simple network protocol (and corresponding command-line utility) that passes text streams between client and server. The program can thus be used to model several more complex protocols (e.g. HTTP, FTP, WHOIS, …). Connect to #coderdojo.si also through telnet.

The points for this task are only awarded when you have been seen lurking in the channel relatively frequently for at least month, and/or you show above-average activity in the channel, and/or you significantly contribute to the channel in some other way, like help with the channel’s bot.