mIRC

I'm not a very sociable person, and I don't like chat rooms very much, so it might seem odd that I would write an opinion on a program for connecting to a chat network. But, mIRC is for more than just joining generic chat rooms and going through the same boring a/s/l (age/sex/location) chat with a bunch of people you don't know, who probably aren't even of the gender or age they claim to be. Yes, there are chat rooms devoted to just chat in general, but there is so much more out there. mIRC is a client for IRC (Internet Relay Chat). There are many others out there (such as pIRC) but mIRC is arguably the best, both for beginners and experienced ...  Read the complete review

I've been involved with IRC since I started university in 1997 when I no longer had to worry about spending too much time connected to the Internet at home. I had heard about it from a friend who had told me how to get connected, so I downloaded it, and installed it. It's a fairly small download at just over 1Mb, and installation is fully automatic once you decide where the installation directory will be. Setting up is a breeze and if you know nothing about IRC (Internet Relay Chat), as I did the first time, you can still find yourself online and chatting within minutes. All you do then is select a network (each network has it's own rules, ...  Read the complete review

-Intro- Well the last few years have been great for Internet Relay Chat, The population is growing wildly and that is (in most cases) a very good thing. Its great fun chatting on irc.. especially when you can actually find a decent room with non-idle folk. BUT, with the amount of users using IRC theres bound to be some idiots, and those idiots may try taking advantage of any weakness on your computer or internet connection, so lets talk about some way you can protect / maintain your self and (if need be) your channel. -Personal Protection- Okay, let's say Lamer1 wanted you too loose your connection to IRC.. theres a number of ways he can go about ...  Read the complete review

mIRC is an internet chat relay system which connects to irc servers. It is free to download from mirc.co.uk, you are supposed to register it. I haven't yet, and I don't really plan to. I'm completely happy with the service as it is. The reason I downloaded it was because it let me access a whole bunch of different chats at once. Instead of having two different webpages open, with two different chats, I only had to open mIRC and then connect to the chats. (so long as they had the same server, which in most cases they did.) In my opinion, mIRC is simple to use, you just use slash commands to operate it. For example, /server irc.linkline.com, ...  Read the complete review

When I first used IRC, it reminded me of the BBC Basic my primary school had, only the older people will understand that, but anyway. But after a while of use I found that is was as good as any group chat I had used, in fact it was one of the best. It is better that MSN because you can have many people in the room and even people who you dont know. Its also great because you can create rooms, so if you feel like talking about fish, you can start your own room about the slippery little things, people may not use it but you can make it. There is also the ability to give trout slaps to other people. This is great as a trout slap is the deadliest ...  Read the complete review