What do you mean by internet relay chat?

1.	What do you mean by internet relay chat?
Answer» Internet Relay Chat, or IRC, is a protocol that allows users that connect to Internet Relay Chat Servers to have converstaions with others in real time. Users connect to IRC Servers using an IRC Client. There are many popular IRC clients available on the Internet for all operating systems. These clients are generally a graphical interface to the IRC Server which allows you a familiar interface to the chat system. There are pure text versions of the client found for Unix systems as well.

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