Initially, most IRC servers formed a single IRC network, to which new servers could join without restriction, but this was soon abused by people who set up servers to sabotage other users, channels, or servers.

This new network was known as " dal's net ", after the nickname used by the administrator of the first IRC server on the network, " dalvenjah ", taken from the dragon " Dalvenjah Foxfire ", in a fantasy novel by Thorarinn Gunnarsson.

At that point DALnet was one of the four biggest IRC networks.

Added to the DDoS issues was the fact that the owner of twisted. dal. net ( the world's largest single IRC server, hosting more than 50, 000 clients most of the time ) delinked his servers ( for personal reasons ).

It is originally based on ircII-EPIC and eventually it was merged into the EPIC IRC client.

It was known that early versions of BitchX were vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack in that they could be caused to crash by passing specially-crafted strings as arguments to certain IRC commands.

This was first implemented by Undernet ( ircu ) and is now common in many IRC servers.

The Cocoa client Colloquy was previously based on Irssi, but it now uses its own IRC core implementation.

IRC was created in 1988.

At the time an IRC could be exchanged for a single-rate, ordinary postage stamp for surface delivery to a foreign country, as this was before the introduction of airmail services.

Inside the envelope was an international reply coupon ( IRC ), something which he had never seen before.

The gross profit margin in percent on buying and selling each IRC was colossal, but the overhead required to handle the purchase and redemption of these items, which were of extremely low cost and were sold individually, would have exceeded the gross profit.

The talk program was named TALK and was written to handle many options that are seen in IRC today: tables, private messages, actions, moderators and inviting to tables.

About his reverse engineering skills, in a post on his blog he said that in the ' 90s he started with a book (" Programming the 8086 8088 "), the web (" Fravia's site was a goldmine ") and IRC (" Lurked in a x86 assembly IRC channel and picked up tips from wise wizards.

Greeklish was commonly used on the Internet when Greek people communicate by forum, e-mail, IRC, instant messaging and occasionally on SMS, mainly because older operating systems didn't have the ability to write in Greek, or in a unicode form like UTF-8.

The technologies included Usenet, MUDs ( Multi-User Dungeon ) and their derivatives MUSHes and MOOs, Internet Relay Chat ( IRC ), chat rooms and electronic mailing lists ; the World Wide Web as we know it today was not yet used by many people.

Brandon Carl Vedas ( April 21, 1981 – January 12, 2003 ), also known by his nickname ripper on IRC, of Phoenix, Arizona, United States, was a computer enthusiast, recreational drug user and member of the Shroomery. org community who died of an overdose of prescription drugs while discussing what he was doing via chat and webcam.

This was uncritically relayed by media, which remarked that the employer who filed the patent was following the x264 project IRC development channel and was known to the project developers, leading to Tandberg claiming that they discovered the algorithm independently.

A group of operators, with the support of Jarkko Oikarinen, introduced a new " Q-line " into their server configurations, to " quarantine " themselves away from eris by disconnecting from any subset of the IRC network as soon as they saw eris there.

A group of IRC server operators, with the support of Jarkko Oikarinen, introduced a new " Q-line " into their server configurations, to " quarantine " themselves away from eris by disconnecting from any subset of the IRC network as soon as they saw eris there.

As of April 2011, the top 100 IRC networks served more than half a million users at a time, with hundreds of thousands of channels operating on a total of roughly 1, 500 servers out of roughly 3, 200 servers worldwide.

While working at the University of Oulu in August 1988, he wrote the first IRC server and client programs, which he produced to replace the MUT ( MultiUser Talk ) program on the Finnish BBS OuluBox.

* A history of IRC by Oikarinen at the IRC website

The IRC is now at work in more than 40 countries and in 22 US cities.

For refugees afforded sanctuary in the United States, IRC resettlement offices across the country provide a range of assistance aimed at helping new arrivals settling, adjusting and acquiring the skills to become self-sufficient.

The IRC was founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, and made its first Freedom Award in 1957, to German politician Willy Brandt, who went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Ghanaian received the award in November 2008 at the 75th anniversary dinner of the IRC.

* The IRC Connector between the Business School and the Interdisciplinary Resource Center ( IRC ) created a collaborative meeting and lounge space which is heavily used by students at all hours.

Internet Relay Chat ( IRC ) and other online chat technologies allow users to join and communicate with many people at once, publicly.

In an IRC ( Incrementally Related Carrier ) system, the VHF channels are at their off-air frequencies except for channels 5 and 6, which will be 2 MHz higher than usual.

When compared to sending messages normally, this reduces IRC network load, allows sending of larger amounts of text at once, due to the lack of flood control, and makes the communication more secure by not exposing the message to the IRC servers ( however, the message is still in plaintext ).

As a follow on to his involvement in the Ludlow Massacre, Rockefeller was a major initiator with his close friend and advisor William Lyon Mackenzie King in the nascent industrial relations movement ; along with major chief executives of the time he incorporated Industrial Relations Counselors ( IRC ) in 1926, a consulting firm whose main goal was to establish industrial relations as a recognized academic discipline at Princeton University and other institutions.

In synchronous communications all participants are online at the same time ( e. g. IRC ), while asynchronous communications occurs with time constraints.

An Energy Star qualified home uses at least 15 % less energy than standard homes built to the 2004 International Residential Code ( IRC ).

People have wildly different opinions about what constitutes a proper computer party ; the common trend at TG these years seem to be warez, games ( the most popular being Counter-Strike ), and IRC.

All of network servers run on IRCnet's ircd with the current version 2. 11 ( latest software versions are maintained at IRC. ORG ).

Finally, with assistance from the Air Force, NARA established the Interagency Referral Center ( IRC ) in order to support agencies as they seek access their equities in federal records at the National Archives at College Park and to ensure that high demand records are processed first.

Thus the Government of Canada came to inherit the PEIR in 1874 at the same time as construction was progressing on the Intercolonial Railway ( IRC ), which would link the strategic winter ports of the Canadian Maritimes with Central Canada.

Another new line was built east from Charlottetown to Murray Harbour, part of which included building the Hillsborough River Bridge, using a former IRC bridge over the Miramichi River at Newcastle, New Brunswick.

It also was previously available through a modified CGI: IRC client at http :// chat. plastic. com /.

An international reply coupon ( IRC ) is a coupon that can be exchanged for one or more postage stamps representing the minimum postage for an unregistered priority airmail letter of up to twenty grams sent to another Universal Postal Union ( UPU ) member country.

* Universal Greeting Time, used in IRC channels.