Today in this tutorial we will learn a basic set of IRC commands. IRC is a great way of communicating and is worth spending a little time to learn how to make your way around the interface. After reading this tutorial you will better understand how IRC works and maybe even enjoy using it more.
Incase you haven’t already heard this, or been living under a rock with sunglasses on for the last 10 years, IRC is the abbreviations for Internet Relay Chat. Now you know.
First in this tutorial we am going to start by saying, all IRC commands start with a slash or better known as /. This is telling IRC to execute the command that follows the slash. Without this slash IRC will paste your command into the current channel you have joined or the main server tab.
Ok so you know what IRC stands for and what comes before each command, now it’s time to learn a few simple IRC commands that come in handy when using this amazing chat relay.
To join a channel you must first know the name of the channel you would like to join. Type “/join #channelname”, without quotes and changing channelname to the name of the channel you wish you interact with.
Now that you know how to get into an IRC channel lets go through what’s in the channel. Each channel must have at least one OP. You ask what a channel OP eh? An OP is a person who operates/moderates the channel, he or she is given the responsibility of watching over all the users and making sure everyone is following the channel rules if any are set.
So we know what channel Ops do, but how do we know who the Ops are? Ops will either have a green dot next to his/hers IRC handle or if using the chat client mirC a @ sign next to their handle.
In the room you may also see users with what we call “voices”. Voices are given out by Ops and only by Ops. I suggest you do not ask for a voice, it’s better to have something worth saying and maybe an OP will notice you and voice you. Voice users do not have any special power unlike Ops so don’t go thinking your all powerful with voice then try to kick a user and get a “You’re not channel operator” notice.
Also, if there’s a flame war or somrthing going on in the channel, an op can “mod” the channel, and then only voices and ops can talk. This paragraph is by njs.
We strayed off course there from our commands but it’ also good information to know about the channels you join and will benefit you in the long run.
Back to commands. Imagine you would like to say “Myself went to the mall” or anything that has to deal with yourself. Type “/me is happy I know how to use IRC” without quotes and IRC will interrupt the command as your nick name plus the text you specified after the command. This would be how IRC would display the command if your channel handle/nickname was “John_Doe”: John Doe is happy I know how to use IRC. Try out the command in the channel to better understand what this IRC geek is trying to tell you all.
Another useful command would be how to set your IRC nick name and register it. Type “/nick mynick” without quotes and change the mynick text to whatever nick you wish to go by on the channel. Sometimes channel nicknames are already registered or already in use. If so pick another nickname or use the same one with some numbers on it. Some bigger channels like Undernet and some others do not let you register a nickname. If by chance you are using an IRC server that allows IRC nickname registration type “/msg nickserv register password”, without quotes and changing the password text to the password you wish to use for this nickname.
I hope this tutorial helped you learn more about this amazing chat client and will better your IRC experience. If you have any questions about this tutorial you do not understand send a PM to datapimp and i’ll get back to you as soon as possible. 
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Thanks for the look!
-Data :sketchy:
