An introduction to IRC is given at http://www.irchelp.org/ irchelp/ new2irc.html (Caraballo and Lo, 2000). Read this article and use it to find answers to the following questions.
- What is a ‘nick’?
- What would you need to type into your IRC client to join a channel called #talk?
- A ‘nick’ is a nickname / addy / nome de guerre / alias, which you are known by in IRC land.
- To join the channel #talk, you would need to type in the following: /join #talk
