IRC

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IRC Chat

• The presentation of
• Tamara Broos
• Jan Verkoyen
• Allaart Vermaut OR
• The presentation of
• Fish
• neXus
• monch

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Quick Start

• IRC Exceed
• Start?Programs?Network?IRC Exceed
• Fill in the server
• irc.zeelandnet.nl
• live.rug.ac.be
• Choose your nick press connect
• Type /join kul and you are ready to start

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Structure of our presentation

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Definition Explanation IRC
• 3. History of IRC
• 4. IRC other chat
• 5. IRC clients mIRC
• 6. Inquiry the user
• 7. Relation between language IRC
• 8. Evaluation IRC
• 9. Conclusion

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What is IRC?

• 2 definitions
• Tucows IRC (Internet Relay Chat) allows many
  users on different systems at different locations
  to converge into one "room" and have a
  discussion, similar to a conference call or party
  line. IRC is used both for entertainment and
  serious discussion purposes.
• Jefferson County GlossaryInternet Relay Chat
  (IRC) is a standard for exchanging text messages
  in real time over the Internet.

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What is IRC? (2)

• IRC-program
• Connection to the network
• Joining a channel
• Channels and users

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History of IRC

• Jarkko Oikarin decided to develop a multi-user
  chat system where people convene on channels
  to talk in groups or privately 
• Birthday of Irc  summer of 1998
• First IRC server  olsun.oulu.fin
• Spread around Scandinavia
• Spread across the internet
• August 1990  Efnet was formed after a big
  disagreement among programmers
• 1991  The Persian Gulf War gt International
  fame 

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IRC History (2)

• 6. December 1992  The Undernet was born
• 7. Summer 1994  Dalvenjah formed Dalnet
• 8. The great split
• Ircnet-servers  mostly in Europe
• Efnet-servers  mostly in the US
• 9. Still a lot of new initiatives to improve and
  develop the internet realy chat

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Webchat
Webpage Chat or Webchat -Most simple way to
chat -Two kinds of webchat -Very limited
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ICQ

• ICQ
• 1997 the beginning of a successtory
• Possibilties
• A comparison with IRC
• Picture the program

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IRC Firstclass

• Possibility to chat with Fc is limited
• Two different programs
• Conclusion

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IRC-clients mIRC

• Introduction
• mIRC
• Scripts
• mIRC
• Rules on a chat
• No spam
• No floods
• No join floods
• No caps
• No hacking

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IRC-clients mIRC (2)

• Punishment
• Kick
• Ban
• K-line
• The mIRC environment
• Functions
• Status
• The channels you joined

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IRC-clients mIRC (3)

• Chatbox 4 major parts
• Upper bar
• Users
• Chat
• Textbar
• Different users
• Users
• Voiced users
• Bots
• Operators

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IRC-clients mIRC (4)

• mIRC commands
• Plain text (no /)
• /me
• /away
• /return
• /chat
• /quit
• Scoop script ( IRCn)

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Inquiry User profile

• Two examples of webstatistics
• Chatbox  users.pandora.be/apa/services/bots/step
  hanie/kul/htm
• Network  hinner.com/irc.stat

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Our First-Class-groupConnections (1)
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Figure 2  How many times (Internet)
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Figure 3  Do you chat ?
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Figure 4 IRC or Webchat
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Figure 5 How frequently do you chat?
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Figure 6 Private or public rooms
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Figure 7 multiple nicks?
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Figure 8 observator or participator?
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Figure 9 Ever met somebody?
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The most popular channels (10)
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Language IRC

• An ambiguous relation
• Written
• Spoken?
• Two similarities
• Real time
• Less formal
• Spoken
• Nicks
• Effects on chatbehaviour

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Language IRC (2)

• Effects on language
• Imitation of spoken language
• Io, Wass up??
• Abbreviations
• Brb, asl, np, lol, wb
• Typing/Spelling errors
• Smileys
• Youre stupid -)
• Youre stupid
• Only when chatting?

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Evaluation IRC

• The advantages of IRC  
• 1. A friend of mine chats everyday via ICQ. He
  chats on average 3 hours a week and started
  chatting two years ago. The reason why he chats
  is very functional. Hes girlfriend lives in
  Spain the telephone costs a lot of money and in
  this way they can talk to each other and say a
  lot of things without a very high telephone bill.
  The advantage of chatting in this example doesnt
  need any explanation.

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Evaluation IRC (2)

• 2. Chatting can mean sharing ideas and
  information with other people known or unknown
• 3. It can be a global conferencing room
• 4. Its like going to a pub and meeting people,
  but then from all over the world
• 5. You can meet people in real live, you met
  before on a chatbox. Maybe it will turn out in a
  wild love affair )
• 6. Its pretty cheap, the price of a local call.
  Makes long distance communication more attractive

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Evaluation IRC (3)

• 6. Its cheap, the price of a local call. Makes
  long distance communication more attractive.
• 7. A lot is left up to imagination
• 8. An Irc-client can be downloaded for free
• 9. You get real time response
• 10. There are a lot of channels and topics to
  choose from

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Evaluation IRC (4)

• The disadvantages of IRC
• 1.      Its texts based. And although you can
  hug in chat-language , it doesnt feel the same
• 2.      It takes a lot of time. Or like they say
  time flies , when you are chatting
• 3.      People can get addicted to it , and so
  the telephone bill can get expensive
• 4.      Its asocial. No real face-to-face
  contact.
• 5.      It isnt easy to regulate , so can be
  abused

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Evaluation IRC (5)

• 6.      Maybe the other person you really like on
  the chatbox , has got a totally different
  identity in real life 
• 7.      Most people use it for fun , no really
  qualitative information can be gathered from the
  chatbox

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Cartoon
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Conclusion

• Visit the website at www.kuleuven.ac.be/iccp/iccp
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