Internet Relay Chat
Connection details, for the IRC familiar.
Server: irc.tzirc.com
Support Channel: #Help
Chat Channel: #TheZone
What is IRC? For those new to IRC.
IRC is short for Internet Relay Chat. I tell my friends to think of it like
multiplayer notepad. It doesn't have smileys. It doesn't have cool noises.
It just has text, and people.
One of my favorite features about IRC is that you can run your own server, or collection
of servers called a network. That just means you can make a private communication
area that can host multiple chat rooms that can be available to as many or as few
people as you would like.
Paul Sobel and
I administrate
TheZone IRC Network ... or
tZ-IRC. On this network, Paul owns
#TheZone.
This is a channel (IRC equivalent to a chat room) Paul set up for ourselves
and some Internet friends. I don't say "friends" lightly. The Internet
is a place where relationships, even strange impersonal ones, can grow. I
speak to some of these people every day, and have for the past
years. I play online games with them. I solve problems with them. I
ask them for advice on my software, and help testing various things.
Most people use an IRC client. The most popular one on Windows is
mIRC. mIRC can be difficult
to set up at first, since there are multiple servers and multiple channels.
Most things in IRC are command based. For that reason, I recommend you
try our
web-chat feature first. Warning: #TheZone is a channel where many
of the regulars see their presence in the channel highly similar to their presence
in their own living rooms, with their closest friends. They tell lame jokes.
They pick on each other. They swear. And they act goofy. I
personally may not condone all of it, but we tolerate it, bless God!
©
2024
Jay Baldwin