INTERNETRELAYCHAT
Internet Relay Chat
Internet Relay Chat is a protocol for live interactive Internet text messaging or synchronous conferencing. It is mainly designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication via private message as well as chat and data transfer, including file sharing.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Internet Relay Chat
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