If you’ve been curious about IRC and are an Emacs user, Taylor’s video is an excellent way to learn enough to try it out. The video is 14 minutes, 51 seconds so it should be relatively easy to fit in. The configuration can come later when they decide to become regular users. It’s probably easier for new users to simply fire up ERC without worrying about configuration. Most of his configuration just involves setting up some useful defaults-such as his nickname, IRC server, and the like-to make signing onto a session a bit simpler. Then he goes over his, fairly minimal, configuration and shows the difference it makes in a session. It’s surprisingly useful that way and probably more than adequate for occasional users. Taylor first gives a demonstration of vanilla ERC without any configuration. Sort of like Twitter but without the crazy people.
The #Emacs channel, for example is a place where Emacs users and developers can hang out, ask questions, and discuss matter important to the community. It was developed in 1995 to provide support for Microsoft Windows operating system.
It’s sort of like the old Unix talk application but it’s run on a remote server and supports multiple people. mIRC 2018 is one of the most popular IRC or Internet Relay Chat Client that lets you chat with your friends across multiple chat engines. It’s a very old chat protocol that predates the Web and was popular back when Usenet was still an important way of sharing information. IRC is, of course, invisible to most of the general public and maybe even some of the younger nerds. Derek Taylor over at DistroTube has a nice video up on ERC, the builtin Emacs IRC chat client.
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