[9554] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: irc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Williams)
Mon Jan 10 12:42:51 1994
From: sdw@meaddata.com (Stephen Williams)
To: ETARICANI@a1.psupen.psu.edu (Ellen Taricani 814-863-3449)
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 12:43:40 -0500 (EST)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <01H7ILGGD93E8WXMMD@mrgate.psupen.psu.edu> from "Ellen Taricani 814-863-3449" at Jan 10, 94 11:30:00 am
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> What is an IRC and does it provide free Internet access?
<chuckle>... let me help you out of the TLA (Three letter acronym) jungle...
IRC is Internet Relay Chat.
It is a distributed multi-server, multi-user, multi-mode
chat/conversation system.
You have to get Internet access somewhere else first to use it.
In the scheme of comm:
Email: one to one or a few, short batch
Netnews: many to many, long batch
IRC: one to one or few, realtime/message based, bidir.
Multimedia(MBONE): one to one bidir. or one to few unidir., realtime
stream based.
Services (gopher, ftp, finger, www/mosaic, wais): one to many,
database based, upgrade or automaton based, unidirectional.
sdw
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