ircII
Sign in to saveircII (pronounced i-r-c-two or irk-two, and sometimes referred to as IRC client, second edition) is a free, open-source Unix IRC and ICB client written in C. Initially released in the late 1980s, it is the oldest IRC client still maintained.
Key facts
- Software.name
- ircII
- Software.screenshot
- Ircii.png
- Software.screenshot size
- 220px
- Software.caption
- ircII client session
- Software.author
- Michael Sandrof
- Software.developer
- Matthew R. Green, ircII project
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.operating system
- Unix-like
- Software.size
- 577 kB
- Software.language
- English
- Software.genre
- IRC client
- Software.licence
- BSD-3-Clause
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- free software
- Official website
- www.eterna23.net/ircii
- Image
- Ircii 20210314 screenshot.png
- Has use
- IRC
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- copyright license
- 3-clause BSD License
- operating system
- Unix-like operating system
- programmed in
- C
- inception
- 1980-00-00
- Commons category
- IrcII
- derivative work
- BitchX
- software version identifier
- 20260115
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- History
- Features
- See also
- References
- External links
ircII (pronounced i-r-c-two or irk-two, and sometimes referred to as IRC client, second edition) is a free, open-source Unix IRC and ICB client written in C. Initially released in the late 1980s, it is the oldest IRC client still maintained.
==History== Several other UNIX IRC clients, including BitchX, EPIC, and ScrollZ, were originally forks of ircII. It was the first client to implement file transfer capabilities over IRC. The CTCP protocol was implemented by Michael Sandrof in 1990 for version 2.1. The DCC protocol was implemented by Troy Rollo in 1991 for version 2.1.2, and was never intended to be portable to other IRC clients.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ircII” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.