IRC was created by Jarkko Oikarinen in August 1988. The ones who grew up in the 90’s and 00’s probably heard of it or even used it. Nowadays it still exists however in most of the cases replaced by WhatsApp and other message apps.

Recently How-to Geek posted an opinion story related to IRC. Curious? Go on and try it. You don’t even need to install an IRC Client. Web based clients like Mibbit are here to assist. Really want to kick start? Download mIRC and go full speed ahead.

First search for a server. There are many of them. Most clients will present you the most popular ones. The search for a channel of your interest.

Follow this Beginner’s guide from Fedora to really get a kickstart into this internet phenomena.