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• IRC /I-R-C/ n. [Internet Relay Chat] A worldwide "party line" network that allows one to converse with others in real time.
  IRC is structured as a network of Internet servers, each of which accepts connections from client programs, one per user....
• obot: [IRC, MUD] n. An {IRC} or {MUD} user who is actually a program.
  On IRC, typically the robot provides some useful service....
• alk mode n. A feature supported by Unix, ITS, and some other OSes that allows two or more logged-in users to set up a real-time on-line conversation.
  It combines the immediacy of talking with all the precision (and verbosity) that written language entails....
• bot n [common on IRC, MUD and among gamers; from `robot'] 1.
  An IRC or MUD user who is actually a program. On IRC, typically the robot provides some useful service....
• finn: [IRC] v. To pull rank on somebody based on the amount of time one has spent on {IRC}.
  The term derives from the fact that IRC was originally written in Finland in 1987....
• etlag: [IRC, MUD] n. A condition that occurs when the delays in the {IRC} network or on a {MUD} become severe enough that servers briefly lose and then reestablish contac
  causing messages to be delivered in bursts, often with delays of up to a minute....
• initgame /in-it'gaym/ n. [IRC] An IRC version of the trivia game "Botticelli
  in which one user changes his nick to the initials of a famous person or other named entity, and the others on the channel ask yes or no questions, with the one to guess the person getting to be "it" next....
• channel: [IRC] n. The basic unit of discussion on {IRC}.
  Once one joins a channel, everything one types is read by others on that channel....
• channel hopping: [IRC, GEnie] n. To rapidly switch channels on {IRC}, or a GEnie chat board, just as a social butterfly might hop from one group to another at a party.
  This term may derive from the TV watcher's idiom, `channel surfing'....