Its interest is to obtain and share information and knowledge. This is a community of people that work on the Web. We are able to participate in discussions, ask a question regarding our particular problem or even help another.
The interaction is happening now and it is in real-time. There are hundreds of users present in this channel from different parts of the world with varying backgrounds, expertise in and around this field. We are now participating in a channel for Semantic Web Interest Group. I will simply pick a case like Web development to illustrate my thoughts. It is to summarize and to exemplify our further need for improved digital social interaction systems. I will now give away the purpose of this article in order to perhaps save some of you a little time. By default IRC interactions are held in a community setting, IMs on the other hand allow the users to invite third parties to chat in a group.īy the way, IRC has been around close to two decades. ) communicating primarily in a one-to-one fashion, IRC requires only a client to connect to different servers with an additional ability to interact with many people in any channel. Why? Here are the advantages: in a world with variety of - Instant Messengers ( IM): (e.g. If you haven't yet, you are encouraged to hop on to an IRC server and continue your peer to peer interactions.
Any individual with an IRC client can join a server, participate in a particular channel or even create their own. The interaction can take place in channels (chat rooms) with a variety of topics or even be peer to peer. In its simplest form, it is a medium in which people can interact with one another textually in real-time. Home of the greatest time saver and waster.