# IRC
**IRC** or Internet Relay Chat is a protocol for internet communication via simple text messages.

See living internet at https://www.livinginternet.info/r/r.htm for history, working concept, usage and more.

See irssi's new users guide at https://irssi.org/New-users/

# Usage
Connect via a client such as [irssi](irssi)
IRC is ephemeral in nature. Use it to hash out stuff, move the interesting/useful bits to another, more permanent medium.

Taken from https://drewdevault.com/2021/11/24/A-philosophy-for-instant-messaging.html


# Etiquette
A general primer is available at https://geoff.greer.fm/2012/05/19/programmer-irc-etiquette/

See https://man.sr.ht/chat.sr.ht/etiquette.md on a thorough guide from sourcehut on IRC etiquette

https://jvns.ca/blog/good-questions/ is also useful when asking questions

## Highlighting (pinging)
When you have to send someone a highlight (mention them), send along context in the same message. This makes it so they don't have to look for the context in another bit of chat log.


# Channels
Find channels with https://netsplit.de and 

## libera.chat
`#oldcomputerchallenge` people using lo-end computers daily