Internet Relay Chat

Internet Relay Chat

Servers
As free software, anyone can download and run IRC server. In addition, there are many public IRC servers where you can create your own channels.

Public IRC: http://quakenet.org, http://freenode.net

IRC Clients

 * Pidgin

Browser Plugins

 * ChatZilla

Web IRC Interfaces

 * [Kiwi IRC] a free javascript/web based IRC client

ASCII Art Inspirations

Programming an IRC bot in Python
Download this http://pypi.python.org/pypi/irc

LInks

 * Longing for a return to realtime text
 * Tactical chat