IRC is Internet Relay Chat, one of the oldest forms of multi-party text chat, to take notes and coordinate the conversation here

Unlike Yahoo Chat, it does not require registration, but it does require client software that understands IRC.

If you are running the open-source Firefox browser (which we recommend highly), you have a quick way to add IRC by installing the extension called Chatzilla.

Microsoft's Internet Explorer does not yet feature IRC, but you can install mIRC or many other client apps.

Read this for tips on why IRC is worth figuring out. For a list of other IRC clients, head here. For the more adventuresome, here is the IRC Help Archive. Wikipedia's IRC page is pretty technical.

Once your IRC client is installed, clicking on the link to our chat should launch you into the right room.

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