The Small Print:

Internet Relay Chat, IRC was originally created by Jarkko Oikarinen in 1988 in Finland. More Technical information is available through the Internet Relay Chat Protocol's original RFC (Request for Comments), RFC 1459 available at: http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/rfc/rfc.html

ShadowFire.org holds the copyright for ShadowFire as of 2000; The Main server address for ShadowFire is Irc.ShadowFire.Org, Port 6667; The website for ShadowFire is located at http://www.shadowfire.org

This guide was developed as a project for CS40 at Claremont McKenna College, Fall 2001. Claremont McKenna College is in no way responsible for the contents of this website. The author maintains full responsibility, please let me know if any links needed to be credited differently or have changed at mysteria@thevortex.com

This guide uses responses to an email survey about IRC. Please email me if you would like a copy of the survey. Upon request, certain usernames have been withheld. Email addresses and identities of respondents will not be provided unless permission is granted. Many thanks to all those who participated.

This website will eventually reside on its mirror, http://ircintro.cjb.net. Please be patient until it is finally edited and completed.