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Exploring Internet Relay Chat (IRC)

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Exploring Internet Relay Chat (IRC)

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- [Instructor] IRC or Internet Relay Chat is a text-based communication protocol that allows users to chat either directly with each other or with a virtual chat room involving many participants. IRC servers can connect to each other too, allowing broader contact across networks. IRC chat rooms have been popular for decades. And while in many cases, collaboration tools like Slack, Teams, Discord, and dozens of others have taken the place of IRC, they remain in use in some scenarios. IRC chat rooms remain popular on the internet. And in many organizations, engineering and dev ops teams use IRC instead of apps like Slack to communicate and stay in touch. IRC is a popular solution for collaboration because it's fairly easy to set up, it's quite minimal and lightweight, and if you host it yourself, it's free. Unlike a lot of the enterprise-focused collaboration apps. There are quite a few IRC server tools out there. If you're…

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