ircII is a UnixIRC client that is made available completely free of charge, and is available in source form. It is the oldest IRC client still maintained: its initial release was in the late 1980s, soon after the invention of IRC. Several other Unix IRC clients, including BitchX, Enhanced Programmable ircII Client, and ScrollZ, were originally forks of ircII. Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®) is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ... Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet chat or synchronous conferencing. ... BitchX ANSI splash screen (one of several in rotation). ... The Enhanced Programmable ircII Client (ircII-EPIC) is an IRC client for Unix systems descended from the ircII client. ... ScrollZ running on remote computer and used on Mac OS X. ScrollZ is an open source Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client based on ircII. ScrollZ was previously known as CToolz. ...
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ircII is a UnixIRCclient that is made available completely free of charge, and is available in source form.
Perhaps the most common are EPIC, BitchX and ScrollZ, all of them variants of the ircIIclient with greater functionality built into them at some stage in their development.
At one time, the ircIIclient set the standard against which all other clients were developed and measured.