On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Gael WAICHE wrote:

> Paulo Figueiredo wrote:
> >
> > >   There is an electronics IRC channel in #Electronics on EFNet.
> > What's the address of IRC.
>
> As far as I remember...
>
> IRC is not a site, it's the internet equivalent of the
> C.B (Citizen band).
>
> You can see it as a "multi people public talker"
>
> To access this online chat relay, you need to find a software
> dedicated to IRC, run it while you are connected and then
> you can go and listen (thus participate) to the channel
> you are interested in. I think there are some instructions
> and syntax proper to IRC to know to be able to move between channels
> and to send a question or a message.

        IRC will let you talk to thousands of people worldwide, in
real-time.  You need an IRC client to connect to a server, you can get
clients and FAQs from http://www.irchelp.org.  The electronics channel is
#Electronics on the EFNet IRC network.