IRC internet relay chat

CLients include :atomic, mirc, irssi, SimpleIRC , weechat; HexChat
Web clients: libera.chat

/join #channel
/msg NickServ identify password
/away sets status indicating you are not paying attention to messages at this time
/back opposite of /away
/me an action message. Type /me 'does anything'
/part
/partall
leave one channel
leave all the channels
/quit disconnects from the server.
/whois nick More information about user.
What server they are using, or their ISP is. Helpful when you don't recognize a nickname
Other channels a person is in Example: /whois bossmom What it looks like:
    luv2quilt is bossmom@elwo-01-094.dialup.netins.net * Enjoy the Journey........ 
    luv2quilt on @#bossmom 
    luv2quilt using Seattle.WA.US.Undernet.org the time for school is during a recession. 
    luv2quilt has been idle 18secs, signed on Sun Jul 23 18:47:26 
    luv2quilt End of /WHOIS list.
/ping nick time it takes for you to type your message and for others to read your messages.
/ignore nick type options When you don't want to talk to someone.
/ignore nickname 3, you will not receive messages from that person.
To Unignore /ignore -r luv2quilt 3
user: nick or regular expression
type: PRIV, CHAN, NOTI, CTCP, DCC, INVI, ALL
options: NOSAVE, QUIET
/notice nick message send a short message someone without opening up a private window.
/msg nick start a private chat.
Example: /msg puddytat Hey tat, how are you?
/query nick Opens a window to begin a one-to-one chat.
/nick new nick see /msg NickServ identify password
Example: type /nick newnickname (limit 9 characters)
/chat nick Opens up a DCC/CHAT window to another user. continue to chat even if you get disconnected from your server.
Type /chat nickname. 
    Example: /chat oddjob^ 
    What it looks like: 
    Chat with oddjob^ 
    Waiting for acknowledgement...
/help built-in help menu of mIRC.
Type /help, to see the the mIRC Help Menu . search or type /help topic. Example: /help Basic IRC Commands
Commands Available:
 
   ADDBUTTON ADDSERVER ALLCHAN   ALLCHANL  ALLSERV
   AWAY      BACK      BAN       CHANOPT   CHARSET
   CLEAR     CLOSE     COUNTRY   CTCP      CYCLE
   DCC       DEBUG     DEHOP     DELBUTTON DEOP
   DEVOICE   DISCON    DNS       ECHO      EXEC
   EXECCONT  EXECKILL  EXECSTOP  EXECWRITE FLUSHQ
   GATE      GETBOOL   GETFILE   GETINT    GETSTR
   GHOST     GUI       HELP      HOP       ID
   IGNORE    INVITE    JOIN      KICK      KICKBAN
   KILLALL   LAGCHECK  LASTLOG   LIST      LOAD
   MDEHOP    MDEOP     ME        MENU      MKICK
   MODE      MOP       MSG       NAMES     NCTCP
   NEWSERVER NICK      NOTICE    NOTIFY    OP
   PART      PING      QUERY     QUIET     QUIT
   QUOTE     RECONNECT RECV      RELOAD    SAY
   SEND      SERVCHAN  SERVER    SET       SETCURSOR
   SETTAB    SETTEXT   SPLAY     TOPIC     TRAY
   UNBAN     UNIGNORE  UNLOAD    UNQUIET   URL
   USELECT   USERLIST  VOICE     WALLCHAN  WALLCHOP
   
 
 User defined commands:
 
   ACTION    AME       ANICK     AMSG      BANLIST
   CHAT      DIALOG    DMSG      EXIT      GREP
   IGNALL    J         KILL      LEAVE     M
   OMSG      ONOTICE   RAW       SERVHELP  SPING
   SQUERY    SSLSERVER SV        UMODE     UPTIME
   VER       VERSION   WALLOPS   WI        WII
   
 
 Plugin defined commands:
 
   UNLOAD    NETSTREAM NETDATA   SYSINFO   RELOAD
   UNLOAD    LOAD      PY        DELKEY    SETKEY
   DOAT      CHECKSUM  TIMER     
 
 Type /HELP  for more information, or /HELP -l