While for those who already know what Freenode is this post may sound obvious, but there are thousands of internet users out there that will greatly benefit from using such a service. So I decided to put this down on a post.
Freenode is known all over the world as the largest IRC network that still sticks around.
Don't know what is IRC? Well, IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat, and is one of the many internet protocols obscured by the popularity of HTTP (Which stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) . IRC networks were the primary way of chatting for folks around the globe before the viral spread of Facebook, Whatsapp and other social networks.
IRC networks essentially allows any one to create a chat channel, and any number of people can log in to a channel to discuss anything in a group. It's probably the next best thing for group chatting after a Whatsapp/Facebook group. But the icing on the cake is that chatting on Freenode does not require signing up or logging in. It's come, chat, and go. Simple as that.
You can use a nickname as an alias, create a chat channel, and give the channel name to your buddies and get going. Go to webchat.freenode.net, enter a nickname, a channel name (Which should begin with 2 hash tags, unless you have a registered channel), verify the captcha and click connect.
But before you do that, I highly recommend going to https://freenode.net/ and read the documentation so that you don't end up doing something wrong on the network, and to get information of how to create registered channels and registered nicknames.
That's it, and I hope this was useful!
Freenode is known all over the world as the largest IRC network that still sticks around.
Don't know what is IRC? Well, IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat, and is one of the many internet protocols obscured by the popularity of HTTP (Which stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) . IRC networks were the primary way of chatting for folks around the globe before the viral spread of Facebook, Whatsapp and other social networks.
IRC networks essentially allows any one to create a chat channel, and any number of people can log in to a channel to discuss anything in a group. It's probably the next best thing for group chatting after a Whatsapp/Facebook group. But the icing on the cake is that chatting on Freenode does not require signing up or logging in. It's come, chat, and go. Simple as that.
You can use a nickname as an alias, create a chat channel, and give the channel name to your buddies and get going. Go to webchat.freenode.net, enter a nickname, a channel name (Which should begin with 2 hash tags, unless you have a registered channel), verify the captcha and click connect.
But before you do that, I highly recommend going to https://freenode.net/ and read the documentation so that you don't end up doing something wrong on the network, and to get information of how to create registered channels and registered nicknames.
That's it, and I hope this was useful!
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