• An application-layer protocol that facilitates communication in the form of text. The chat process works on a client/server networking model. IRC clients are computer programs that users can install on their system or web based applications running either locally in the browser or on a 3rd party server. IRC was created in 1988 by Jarkko Oikarinen. ← Wikipedia

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