Internet Relay Chat.
If you don't know what it is, count yourself lucky and move along - pausing to enquire will only lead to colossal, incurable and potentially fatal timewasting.
Geeks' corner: the protocol (<rfc:1459>, see also <rfc:2810>, <rfc:2811>, <rfc:2812>, <rfc:2813>) was invented in Finland, and it shows.
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