If you've never poked the IRC protocol directly, Google how to connect to IRC with Telnet.
You can pretty reasonably use IRC just by writing to a socket - by hand. It's all human readable and understandable. It's incredible. It's what an open protocol should be.
You can pretty reasonably use IRC just by writing to a socket - by hand. It's all human readable and understandable. It's incredible. It's what an open protocol should be.
Writing a simple IRC client is a breeze!