~ New Staff ~

Over the past couple of days, we here at IRCnewbies.com have been working hard to fill the positions that we had vacant. In an effort to better serve our users and community, we have made a couple of additions to our chat division and forum moderation team. Please welcome ABN and Arch to the IRCNewbies team! We look forwarded to working with both of these individuals and starting a couple more projects for these two to take on. Good luck to the both of you!

Welcome!

Welcome to the official IRCnewbies wordpress account. This is an extension of our official website, you can visit that webpage by clicking here! IRCnewbies project was launched on October 11th, 2010 & is currently still in the developemental stages. With the advanced changes coming to mIRC/IRC, including JmIRC (Java Mobile Internet Relay Chat), we felt that there was a need for a modernized version of IRC assistance. We hope that you enjoy our webpage(s), and let us know if you’re interested in joining any of our divisions within IRCnewbies!

So What exactly is IRC, you ask? IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat, and a majority of users who enjoy IRC use the mIRC client in order to connect to a chat network. The network is created (generally by a group of volunteers) and allows you to chat with anyone else on that particular network. You will find thousands of channels on each network. A channel is generally represented with the # symbol. For example, if you wanted to chat in the channel #mirc, you would use /join (or /j) #mIRC and you would enter that channel, see a list of all the other users in that channel, and then start chatting.

You can download the mIRC client for free by going to their webpage. As of today, the most current version if 7.15, which was released in November of 2010. There have been several updates in this version, we recommend using it! Click Here to open a separate window and see more information on the mIRC client. Keep in mind, mIRC is considered shareware; it comes with a 30 day free trial, and then recommends that you pay $20 for the registration. You do not have to register, though highly recommended.