ICQ is a program that lets you keep a list of friend's and tells you if they're online or not. Your friends must also have ICQ for you to tell if there online and they can tell of your online as well. Go to http://web.icq.com/ to learn more.

AIM is just like ICQ but you get to organize your friend name's in different folders and you get more control over who wants to contact you over AIM, if some one is bugging you just block them. It also has a virus check on it for wend some one send you a file. Go to http://www.aol.com to learn more.

IRC is like the web but instead of surfing web site's you surf for chat room channels. On the web you need a browser to view web pages and on IRC you need a chat program to get onto IRC. I use mIRC and it's a good chat program so I trust it will be a good chat program for you to. Go to http://www.mirc.com/ to download it and when your done downloading come back to this web page and I'll tell you how to get on the Samurai Pizza Cat channel, "the funniest channel on earth!" People there are friendly and they may teach you some thing.

When you run mIRC you will see a box that will tell you who the authors of this program are. "Click the close box."

The mIRC setup will pop up "click the IRC server tab" to make shore your on the right tab. now enter your full name, e-mail address, nickname (the name that will be display in the chat room), and alternative name (the name that you will use in chat rooms if some one else is using your name or if you have a ghost on the IRC chat sever). Now "click the add button".

The mIRC add server setup box will pop up, enter Pizza Cats for your description, enter chocobo.esper.net for the IRC sever, enter 6667 for the port, leave the rest blank, "click the ok button."

Now you should end up back at the mIRC setup box, "click the list box and scroll all the way down the list until you see Pizza Cars (the description of the sever you entered) "click on Pizza Cats." Now "click on Connect to IRC server!"

You will see allot of words on your status box, wand the words stop scrolling you will see the mIRC channels folder box pop up. Enter #samuraipizzacats in the "enter name of channel to join" box, click add, now scroll down the list of channel name's till you see #samuraipizzacats in the list of channels. "Click on #samuraipizzacats," now "click join".

You should see a large box that say's "now talking in #samuraipizzacats" inside it, now your done.