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Everything about IRC

Protocol for real-time Internet chat and messaging

IRC is a text-based chat system for instant messaging. IRC is designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, but also allows one-on-one communication via private messages and chat and data transfer, including file sharing. Wikipedia →

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Noun The criminal underworld in cyberspace.

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📚 Books worth reading

📕UndernetRichard Horton · 2012

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