An IRC operator (often abbreviated as IRCop or oper) is a user on an Internet Relay Chat network who has privileged access. IRC operators are charged with...

IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a text-based chat system for instant messaging. IRC is designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels...

its first revisions, IRC did not have many features that are taken for granted today, such as named channels and channel operators. Channels were numbered...

deliver messages to users who are currently offline. OperServ is used by IRC operators to perform administrative functions. Also known as AdminServ, RootServ...

An IRC channel takeover is an acquisition of IRC channel operator status by someone other than the channel's owner. It has largely been eliminated due...

added to major IRC daemons. Most IRC clients require commands to be preceded by a slash ("/"). Some commands are actually sent to IRC bots; these are...

list. Many of these features require that the bot be a channel operator. Thus, most IRC bots are run from computers which have long uptimes (generally...

Relay Chat (IRC) network, with more than 35,000 users. It is the modern-day descendant of the original IRC network. Initially, most IRC servers formed...

the European operators, stated that the immediate cause for the "Great Split" was that a major US EFnet hub had been disconnecting irc.stealth.net without...

Visual IRC (ViRC) is an open-source Internet Relay Chat client for the Windows operating system. Unlike many other IRC clients, nearly all of the functionality...