IRC

Please, please tell me you know what IRC is. I'll be very upset if you don't..
Ok, just in case you don't, heres a brief run-down (and no, there will be no pictures of squashed animals, thank you.)
Irc is a networked chat room system. People chose nicknames, and talk/ interact with other people in real-time.
So there. What that doesn't tell you is that its a hell of a lot of fun.

What will I need?
This one is pretty straight forward.

Irc program. Depending on ur machine, this can be anything from irc to virc.
A net connection. Duh.
A sense of surreality. Some of the things that go on are fairly visual, and not for the faint of heart, or recent of lunch.

Right. Found it. Lets get going!
Whoah! Hold ur horses, sonny-jimbo. Sure you have the software, but do u know how to use it? A good Idea is to read the readme.txt or equivilant documentation that comes with the program to see how the heck it all fits together. If you can't find any, try searching for a comprehensive web page that tells you all about IRC. I'll put some links in my links file if I ever get around to it.

Ok, I'm There. Now What?
Gees, do I need to tell you guys _everything_? Just kidding, its a very fair question, one that I asked when I first joined. Pick a "room" that sounds interesting, and go in. A good one to start off in is #cubbyhouse or #newbies. They're fairly nice people, and good to newbies.

Mate, this guy/girls a lamer. I'm gonna get it with this
Naughty, naughty, old Freud would ask nasty and personal questions about your mother round about now. So, the person's a bit of a jerk. You can be better than that. Don't flat out kick the guy/girl (unless that's a rule of the channel), it might be another newbie who has no idea whats going on. Or, if he gets to be too much of a jerk, the ops of the channel will generally sort them out :)

Well, thats about all I can think of at the moment. I haven't brought my rules for Dante and Relapse's IRC CCG yet, so that will have to wait for another time.

But, for those of us who want more (sheesh), theres the official Oz Dot Org Web site, with more information than u can poke a plutonium rod at. At least, without lead sheilding. I also recommend the Netiquette page, its very useful, and the kindy story is GREAT.

Colin Morris
C.Morris@mailbox.gu.edu.au
Date Last Modified: 12 Oct 1998

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