I’ve been hanging in IRC for years now, mainly in freenode channels like #anythingbutipod, #rockbox and a few other server networks & channels but never found a channel about hot peppers. The other night I ran into THP member PexPeppers in THP Chat and he told me about his channel ##spicy he set up on freenode, so I popped in to check it out
So what is irc you ask? Well to me it’s like ham radio in the fact that its “old school” but cooler IMO cause all you need is a laptop or pc, although no voice communication. The acronym stands for “Internet Relay Chat” but it’s much more IMO and can be fun. Synchronous chat in real time, file sharing, group communication, private messaging, providing others links and much more! IRC has some good history and if you wana read up, you can google or look here
Since PexPeppers set up a site that does all the work for you HERE you don’t need a client (software) if you want to check out the ##spicy channel. That said, if you get into IRC and someday want to take it to the next level I recommend a good client, while I've used a few, I like Mirc best.
So what inspired this thread? I was chatting with PexPeppers in IRC this morning and we were showing each other pepper pictures like this. I said to him this channel needs some additional blood and thought a thread here would be in order. Hope to see some of you there one of these days but be for warned these channels are not always hopping (active) so if you pop in, ask if anyone is around before you leave
Edit: FYI I have a lot of running around town so I'm not there right now but normally I'm on IRC between 9:00 AM EST to around 3:00PM EST. That said, I'll be back in after lunch today estimated 1:00PM EST, hope to see some of you guys there
So what is irc you ask? Well to me it’s like ham radio in the fact that its “old school” but cooler IMO cause all you need is a laptop or pc, although no voice communication. The acronym stands for “Internet Relay Chat” but it’s much more IMO and can be fun. Synchronous chat in real time, file sharing, group communication, private messaging, providing others links and much more! IRC has some good history and if you wana read up, you can google or look here
Since PexPeppers set up a site that does all the work for you HERE you don’t need a client (software) if you want to check out the ##spicy channel. That said, if you get into IRC and someday want to take it to the next level I recommend a good client, while I've used a few, I like Mirc best.
So what inspired this thread? I was chatting with PexPeppers in IRC this morning and we were showing each other pepper pictures like this. I said to him this channel needs some additional blood and thought a thread here would be in order. Hope to see some of you there one of these days but be for warned these channels are not always hopping (active) so if you pop in, ask if anyone is around before you leave
Edit: FYI I have a lot of running around town so I'm not there right now but normally I'm on IRC between 9:00 AM EST to around 3:00PM EST. That said, I'll be back in after lunch today estimated 1:00PM EST, hope to see some of you guys there