[b]Error Quit messages[/b]

Read/write errors

*** Asmo has quit IRC (Read error to Asmo[CC3524-a.deven5.ov.nl.home.com]: EOF from client)
The server expected more information coming from Asmo, but Asmo's IRC client gave a EOF (End Of File) error.

*** Asmo has quit IRC (Write error to Asmo[CC3524-a.deven5.ov.nl.home.com], closing link)
The server sends data back to the IRC client of user Asmo, but in this case the data did not reached Asmo. The server disconnects Asmo as a result.

*** Asmo has quit IRC (connection reset by peer)
The IRC client of Asmo has disconnected from the IRC server due to a error in his software, or Operation System, and as such, did not send a proper command to the server that it has closed the connection. The server closes the ghost that remains.

Ping Timeouts

*** Asmo has quit IRC (Ping timeout for Asmo[CC3524-a.deven5.ov.nl.home.com])
To check if a connection is still alive, the server regulary sends ping requests to its users, and the IRC client of the user sends a pong back. If the returning of the pong has stopped, this will result in the above Ping Timeout.

Oper controlled quits

*** Asmo has quit IRC ((G-lined)Flooding is not allowed on this network)
Here Asmo have been a very naughty boy. And a IRC oper have seen him misbehaving, and as a result, G-Lined him. A G-Line usually is a 1 hour, or 1 day ban from the network. (if the word "Local" preceeds this message, the user is only G-Lined from the server he used)

*** Asmo has quit IRC ((K-lined)Constant flooding and abuse)
Here Asmo really screwed up, and have gotten a K-Line. A K-Line is a permanent ban from a server, or total network. You must misbehave really badly to get a K-Line. (if the word "Local" preceeds this message, the user is only K-Lined from the server he used)

*** Asmo has quit IRC ((Killed)Happy birthday!)
Here user Asmo got a kill from apparently a oper he knows (probally blax, he loves to /kill on birthday's). A kill is a disconnection from the server. The user can reconnect immediately again to the network. Kill's are often used to really make clear to a user that he has to stop whatever he was doing.

Other quit messages

*** Asmo has quit IRC (H22.eu.undernet.org diemen.nl.eu.undernet.org)
This is the result of a so called netsplit. The connection between two servers is broken, and you are on one side, while Asmo is on the other side of the split, resulting in this error quit message. Usually quit a few other users are going along in the netsplit.

*** Quits: Asmo (Excess Flood)
User Asmo has send to much data to the server, and as a precaution, the server disconnected him for that. You usually see these quit messages from malicious ppl trying to flood other users from the network

[b]IRC Acronyms[/b]

A

ADSL Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line
AFAIK As Far as I Know
AFK Away From Keyboard
AIIC As If I Care
AISI As I See It
AKA Also Known As
ANFAWFOS And Now a Word From Our Sponsor
ANSI American National Standards Institute
ASAP As Soon As Possible
ASAFP As Soon As Freakin' Possible
ASCII American Standard Code Information Interchange
AYF All Your Fault

B

BAIK Boy Am I Confused
BAK Back At Keyboard
BF Boy Friend
BFN Bye For Now
BBL Be Back Later
BBS Be Back Soon
BNF Big Name Fan
BNI Batteries Not Included
BO Back Orifice
BOC But Of Course
BOF Birds of a Feather (Special Interest Group)
BOFH Bastard Operator From Hell
BOS Big Orange Switch (Panic Button)
BOT Back on Topic
BRB Be Right Back
BRS Big Red Switch (Panic Button)
BS Bulls*
BSEG Big S* Eating A Grin
BTDT Been There, Done That
BTFT Been There, Fixed That
BTFM Beats the Funk out of Me
BTW By the way
BUGS Bloody User Generated Symptoms

C

C&B Crash & Burn
CATCH Come Again? That Can't Help!
CE Creative Editing
CHAP Challenge Handshake Authemtication Protocol
CIAO Goodbye
COTFLGOHAHA Crawling on the Floor Laughing Guts Out and Having a Heart Attack
CSY Can't Stop Yawning
CTCP Client To Client Protocol
CU Cracking Up
CUL Catch You Later (Goodbye)
CUL8R See You Later
CWYL Chat With You Later
CYA Cover Your Ass
CYA See Ya

D

D&C Duck & Cover
DBA Doing Business As
DBN Doing Business Not
DCC Direct Client Connection
DIAFYO Did I Ask For Your Opinion
DILLIGAFF Do I look Like I give a Flying Figment?
DITUIHIBMSL Did I Tell You I Hate IBMs Lately
DITUILIBMSL Did I Tell You I Love IBMs Lately
DNPM Damn Near P*ed Myself
DNS Domain Name Service
DUCWIC Do You See What I See?
DUCWIM Do You See What I Mean?
DUHWIH Do You Hear What I Hear?

E

E2EG Ear to Ear Grin
EOD End of Discussion
EOL End of Lecture
ESAD Eat S* And Die
ESAL Eat S* And Live
ETLA Enhanced TLA

F

FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
FIGMO Forget It, I've Got My Orders
FIIN F* if I Know
FITB Fill In the Blank
FM Fine Magic
FOAD F* off and Die
FOAF Friend of a Friend
FOAFOAG Father of a Friend of a Girlfriend
FOAG Father of a Girlfriend
FOT Full of Tripe
FRZ Freakin' Religious Zealot
FTASB Faster than a Speeding Bullet
FTL Faster than Light
FTP File Transfer Protocol
FUA Frequently Used Acronyms
FUBAR Fouled Up (!) Beyond All Recognition (or Repair)
FUMTU F*ed up More Than Usual
FWIW For what it's worth
FYEO For Your Eyes Only
FYA For Your Action
FYI For Your Information
FYO For Your Opinion

G

GASP Go Away, Silly Person!
GDI G*d Damn It
GD&R Grinning, Ducking and Running
GD&RVVF Grinning, Ducking and Running Very Very Fast
GF Girl Friend
GGN Gotta Go Now
GIGA Garbage In, Garbage Out
GIWIST Gee I Wish I'd Said That
GMTA Great Minds Think Alike
GOMF Get Outta My Face
GRUIT Get Reay yoU Impudent Thing
GTFOOMF Get the F* Out of My Face
GUI Graphical User Interface

H

HAND Have A Nice Day
HHO1/2K Ha Ha Only Half Kidding
HHOK Ha Ha Only Kidding
HNG Horny Net Geek
HOMPR Hang On, Mobile Phone's Ringing
HTH Hope This Helps
HTML Hyper Text Markup Language
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HWS(PEST) Husband Wants Sex (Please Excuse Slow Typing)

I

IAC In Any Case
IAE In Any Event
IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer, also IANA... such as CPA
IANALBIPOOTV I Am Not A Lawyer, But I Play One On TV
IARTPFWTSIOWIM I am Repeating this Parrot fashion without the slightest idea of what it Means
IBC Inadequate But Cute
IBM Inadequate But Marketable
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
ICUR I See You Are
IDGABTT It Don't Get Any Better Than This
IDGAD I Don't Give a Damn
IDGAS I Don't Give a S*
IDTS I Don't Think So
IIRC If I Remember Correctly
IITYWTMWYBMAD If I Tell You What This Means Will You Buy Me A Drink?
IITYWTMWYKM If I Tell You What This Means, Will You Kiss ME?
ILIWTPCT I Love It When the Plan Comes Together
ILSHIBAMF I Laughed so Hard I Broke All my Furniture
IMBO In My Biased Opinion
IMCO In My Considered Opinion
IMHO In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion
IMO In My Opinion
IMVHO In My Very Humble Opinion
INPO In No Particular Order
IOW In other words
IRC Internet Relay Chat
IRL In Real Life
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
IUD Insert Usual Disclaimers

J

JK Just Kidding

K

KISS Keep It Simple Stupid
KMA Kiss my A*
KWIM Know What I Mean?

L

L8R Later
LAGNAF Lets All Get Naked and Fool Around
LLTA Lots and Lots of Thunderous Applause
LMFAO Laughing My F* A* Off
LMTTA Leave Me the F* Alone
LOL Laughing Out Loud
LTIP Laughing Til I Puke

M

MCBTY(SN) My Computer is Better than Yours (So Nyerrr)
MFG More Friendly Garbage
MHDC(A) My Hard Drive Crashed (Again)
MMIF My Mouth Is Full
MOTD Message Of The Day
MYOB Mind Your Own Business

N

NAA! Not Another Acronym!
NBD No Big Deal
NERD National Establishment for Real Dorks
NFA No Flaming Allowed
NFW No F*ing Way
NIFOC Nude In Front Of Computer
NIMBY Not in My Back Yard
NJTH Not Just Thinking Here
NOMS Not on MY System
NRN No Reply Necessary
NTL Nevertheless
NUNP No Users, No Problems

O

OATUS On a Totally Unrelated Subject
OAUS On a Related Subject
OIC Oh, I See
ONNA Oh No, Not Again
ONNTA Oh No, Not This Again
OOSOOM Out of Sight, Out of Mind
OOTC Obligatory On-Topic Comment
OTFM Only the Facts, Mam
OTC Over the Counter
OTOH On the other hand
OTTOMH Off the Top of My Head
OTTOMHAROOB Off the Top of My Head and Rolling Out of Bounds
OTW On the Whole
OWTTE Or Words to that Effect

P

PBKAC Problem Between Keyboard and Chair
PFM Pure Freaking Magic
PITA Pain In The Ass
PMETC Pardon Me, etc.
PMYMHMMFSWGAD Pardon Me, You Must Have Mistaken Me for Someone Who Gives A Damn
POQ P* Off Quickly
POQADCB P* Off Quickly and Don't Come back
POV Point of View
PPP Petty Pet Peeve
PPP Point to Point Protocol
POP Post Office Protocol
PTMM Please Tell Me More

Q

R

RE Same as welcome back. (see terminology for historic explanation)
RFC Requests For Comments
ROFFNAR Rolling on the Floor for no Apparent Reason
ROFL Rolling on Floor Laughing
ROFLOL Rolling on the Floor Laughing Out Loud
ROFLMAO Rolling on Floor Laughing My Ass Off
ROFLOLBAG Rolling on the Floor Laughing Out Loud Busting a Gut
ROFPML Rolling on the Floor P*ing Myself Laughing
ROTBA Reality on the Blink Again
RSN Real Soon Now [which may be a long time coming]
RTFI Read the Friendly Instructions
RTFM Read the Freakin' manual!
RTFMA Read the Manual, Sir!

S

SAR Some Assembly Required
SBCN Sitting Behind the Computer, Naked
SHM S* Happens, Mate
SICS Sitting in Chair Snickering
SIIN S* if I Know
SNAFU Situation Normal: All Fouled (!) Up
SITD Still in the dark
SSH Secure Shell
SO Significant Other
SOE Silly/Stupid Operator Error
SOL Still Out of Luck (or something thereabouts )
SOP Standard Operational Procedure

T

TANJ There Aint No Justice -- Niven
TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free lunch
TCB Taking Care of Business
TDMATBICPLY This Doesn't Mean A Thing But It Confuses People Like You
TGAL Think Globally, Act Locally
TIA Thanks In Advance (also AtDhVaAnNkCsE)
TIC Tongue in cheek
TINALO This is Not a Legal Opinion
TINAR This is Not a Recommendation
TINWIS That is Not What I Said
TLA Three Letter Acronym (such as this)
TM Trust Me
TNOTVS There's Nothing on Television, so...
TPS(S) This Program Sucks, (Severely)
TPTB The Powers That Be
TRDMC Tears Running Down My Cheeks
TSOHF Total Sense of Humor Failure
TTBOMK To the Best of My Knowledge
TTFN Ta Ta for Now
TTM To The Moderator
TTYL Talk To You Later
TTYRS Talk To You Real Soon
TUFD The User File Died

U

V

VETLA Very Enhanced TLA

W

WAB What, Another Bill
WAMKSAM Why are My Kitties (Kids) Staring at Me
WB Welcome Back
WBS Write Back Soon
WDYMBT What do You Mean by That
WIBAMU Well, I'll be a Monkey's Uncle
WMMOWS Wash My Mouth Out with Soap
WTF What the F*?
WTG Way To Go
WTH What the H*?
WYLABOCTGWTR Would You Like a Bowl of Cream to go with That Remark?
WYLASOMWTC Would You Like a Saucer of Milk with that Comment?
WYSIAWYG What You See is Almost What You Get
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
WYSINWNWYG What You See Is No Where Near What You Get
WYSINWYG What You See Is NOT What You Get
WYPIWYG What You Printed Is What You've Got
WYTYSYDG What You Thought You Saw, You Didn't Get

X

Y

YAOTM Yet Another Off-Topic Message
YHGASPL You Have Got A Serious Problem, Lad!
YSWUS Yea, Sure Whatever You Say!
YMMV Your Mileage may vary
YSS You Suck Severely
YWSYLS You win some, you lose some

Z

[b]Emoticons[/b]

!-( Black eye
!-) Proud of black eye
#-) Wiped out, partied all night
#:-o Shocked
$-) Won the lottery, or money on the brain
%(|:-) Propeller-head
%*} Inebriated
%+{ Got beat up
%-( Confused
%-) Dazed or silly
%-6 Brain-dead
%-\ Hung over
%-{ Ironic
%-| Worked all night
%-} Humorous or ironic
%\ Hangover
>>:-<< Furious
>- Female
>-> Winking devil
>-< Furious
>-) Devilish wink
>:) Little devil
>:-> Very mischievous devil
>:-< Angry
>:-< Mad
>:-( Annoyed
>:-) Mischievous devil
>=^ P Yuck
<:> Devilish expression
<:-> Devilish expression
<:-( Dunce
<:-) Innocently asking dumb question
<:-| Dunce
<:| Dunce
( 8(|) Homer
( <> .. <> ) alienated
(( )):** Hugs and kisses
((())) Lots of hugging (initials or a name can be put in the middle of the one being hugged)
() Hugging
(-: Left-handed smile, or smiley from the southern hemisphere
(:& Angry
(:- Unsmiley
(:-& Angry
(:-( Unsmiley
(:-) Smiley variation
(:-* Kiss
(:-\ Very sad
(::()::) Bandaid, meaning comfort
(:| Egghead
* Kiss
*<:-) Santa Claus
*<|:-) Santa Claus, or a clown
*-) Shot to death
+<:-) Religious leader
+<:-| Monk or nun
+<||-) Knight
+:-) Priest
+O:-) The Pope
-) Tongue in cheek
-= Snuffed candle to end a flame message
-=#:-) Wizard
/\/\/\ Laughter
0:-) Angel
12x@>--->--- A dozen roses
2B|^2B To be or not to be
5:-) Elvis
7:) Ronald Reagan
7:^) Ronald Reagan
8 Infinity
8 :-) Wizard
8) Wide-eyed, or wearing glasses
8-# Death
8-) Wide-eyed, or wearing glasses
8-o Shocked
8-O Astonished
8-P Yuck!
8-[ Frayed nerves; overwrought
8-] Wow!
8-| Wide-eyed surprise
: ( Sad
: ) Smile
: [ Bored, sad
: | Bored, sad
:( ) Loudmouth, talks all the time; or shouting
:* Kiss
:*) Clowning
:**: Returning kiss
:+( Got punched in the nose
:,( Crying
:- Male
:-# My lips are sealed; or someone wearing braces
:-& Tongue-tied
:-> Smile of happiness or sarcasm
:->< Puckered up to kiss
:-< Very sad
:-( Frown
:-) Classic smiley
:-* Kiss
:-, Smirk
:-/ Wry face
:-6 Exhausted
:-9 Licking lips
:-? Licking lips, or tongue in cheek
:-@ Screaming
:-C Astonished
:-c Very unhappy
:-D Laughing
:-d~ Heavy smoker
:-e Disappointed
:-f Sticking out tongue
:-I Pondering, or impartial
:-i Wry smile or half-smile
:-J Tongue in cheek
:-j One-sided smile
:-k Puzzlement
:-l One-sided smile
:-M Speak no evil
:-O Open-mouthed, surprised
:-o Surprised look, or yawn

:-P Sticking out tongue
:-p Sticking tongue out
:-p~ Heavy smoker
:-Q Tongue hanging out in disgust, or a smoker
:-Q~ Smoking
:-r Sticking tongue out
:-s What?!
:-t Unsmiley
:-V Shouting
:-X My lips are sealed; or a kiss
:-x Kiss, or My lips are sealed
:-Y Aside comment
:-[ Unsmiling blockhead; also criticism
:-\'| Sniffles
:-] Smiling blockhead; also sarcasm
:-{) Smile with moustache
:-{)} Smile with moustache and beard
:-{} Blowing a kiss
:-| Indifferent, bored or disgusted
:-| :-| Deja vu
:-|| Very angry
:-} Mischievous smile
:-~) A cold
:-~| A cold
:.( Crying
:/) Not funny
:/i No smoking
:> What?
:@ What?
:C Astonished
:e Disappointed
:P Sticking out tongue
:X Hear no evil
:x Kiss
:\' Crying
:\'( Crying
:\'-( Crying
:\'-) Tears of happiness
:^D Happy, approving
:`-( Shedding a tear
:{ Having a hard time
:~) A cold
:~-( Crying
:~/ Confused
; ) Wink
; P Wink with a raspberry
;( Crying
;-( Angry, or got a black eye
;-) Winkey
;-D Winking and laughing
= O Surprised
= X My lips are sealed
=):-)= Abraham Lincoln
=:-) Punk, or hosehead
=====:} Snake
=^* Kisses
=^D Big grin
?( Black eye
?-( Black eye
@>--->--- A long-stemmed rose
@== Atomic bomb
@}->-- Rose
B:-) Sunglasses on head
d :-o Hats off to you!
IOHO In Our Humble Opinion
M-) See no evil
M-), :X, :-M See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil
M:-) A salute
O 8-) Starry-eyed angel
O :-) Angel
O+ Female
O-> Male
O8-) Starry-eyed angel
O:-) Angel
P* French kiss
Q:-) College graduate
X-( Just died
[:-) Wearing a Walkman
[:-] Square head
[:-| Frankenstein
[:] Robot
[:| Frankenstein
[:|] Robot
[[ ]] Hug Insert a name in the brackets of the one who is being hugged, as: [[Marcia]]
[] Hug
\') Winky
\'-) Winky
\_/ Empty glass
\~/ Full glass
]:-> Devil
]:-) Happy devil
][ Back to back
^ ^ ^ Giggles
^5 High five
`:-) Raised eyebrow
{{ }} Hug; the one whose name is in the brackets is being hugged Example: {{MJ}}
{} No comment
|( Sleepy (on late night email message)
|-<> Puckered up for a kiss
|-( Sleepy, struggling to stay awake, or sleeping badly
|-D Big laugh
|-O Yawn
|-{ Good grief!
|-| Asleep
|I Asleep
|^o Snoring
}-) Wry smile
}: [ Angry, frustrated
}{ Face to face
~ :-( Steaming mad
~:-( Flame message
~:-\ Elvis
~:o Baby
~:\ Elvis
~= Lit candle, indicating a flame (inflammatory message)
~== Begins a flame (inflammatory message)
~~:-( Especially hot flame message
~~:[ Net flame
~~~~8} Snake
~~~~~8} Snake

[b]Terminology[/b]

31337 Supposely superior of knowledge in some area of knowledge, in our case IRC. Use of numbers to write words, like in this case "eleet" seems to be necessary among these ppl.. Oh, and m$ sux, and your computer is a b0x. And dont forget to ph33r them. lol
action Line of text that starts with your own nicj\k, by the use of the /me command. Usually shows up like:
[20:38] * Asmo gets a cold beer
Addon script Small script that can be loaded into a IRC client program, to extend its possibilities. There are for example multiserver addon scripts for mIRC, that allow the user to connect to more networks while not having to open a second mIRC to do so.
admin Owner of a IRC server.
Back Bone High speed Internet connection. Backbones connect the differnt networks toghether, to form the Internet.
Back Orifice One of the most feared so called Trojabn Horse V\virus around. Originally released by the Cult of the Death Cow hacker group.
ban Effectively preventing a user to join a channel with the aid of his hostmask.
barf "vomit", anything that has barf in front of it, can be considered to be something that majorly sucks.
Bigot Someone who rejects new technoly, in a strong, almost religious way.
Bit bucket If something m,ysteriously dissapears on Internet, it went into the Bit bucket.
bot Robot. Automated process that handles repetitive channel tasks. Like voiucing and opping users, setting channel limits, etc.
bouncer Program that sits between a IRC client and the server. Effectively hides the real IP adress from the other users on IRC
bug Error in a software program. The names comes from earlier days, when a machine refused to work, it often was caused by a insect.
channel group of ppl that chat in a IRC chatroom about a given subject.
Channel operator Person that has been given the channel operator status to control a channel. Can be easily identified by the @ in front of their nick.
click A DoS attack. Causes users to disconnect from IRC with the message "Connection reset by peer"
client Program that allows a user to connect to the IRC network. mIRC, BitchX are two well known IRC Clients.
DoS Denial of Serivice. All attacks that are meant to cause a disconnection of the user where it is targeted at.
darkbot Bot that helps in help channels. Can answer FAQ's Almost Artificial Intelligence like.
eggdrop Most common bot that is used in channel managment.
emoticon Use of characters to express a face. Take a look in the emoticon section of this page for a large listing of those.
exploit Taking adcance of a security hole.
Flame Everything between a disagreement and a outragious war between two persons groups on IRC. The struggle itself is also often reffered to as a "Flame war".
Flame bait Something someone says just to deliberately cause a flame war.
Flesh world The real world outside of Internet, whatever that is...
flood Send a large amount of data to a client, or a channel, with the means to cause disconnection of users.
Foo Originally comes from comic books, and means "disgust", or "idiot" or "weirdo".
Freeware Software you can use completely for free. You dont have to pay anything for it. The maker of the software decided to give it away freely. Also referred to as Public Domain (PD).
Full scripts As opposed to addon scripts, who usually only add one extra functionality, full scripts usually add a LOT of extra features. For example the aIRC script for mIRC adds multiserver, email clients, portscanner, a full eggdrop, good away system, clone/mask/etc scanners, and more features. Usually its the "power users" that go bonkers about these extra functions, the more the better!
Geek Worst kind of netizen you can find. A ani\ti social, melodramatic pimpel head who only cares about his computers.
Hacker Person with great knowledge of programming and network protocols. Uses this knowledge to try to break in computers. Shows great interest in security. Not to be confused with script kiddies, who only try to cuase as much damage as they can
Hax0r Another word for a script kiddie. These ppl have no ethics at all, and try to cuase as much damage as they can. They probally have a very low self esteem, cant get a girlfriend, and try to "be someone" on IRC.
Host Other word for server.
Hub IRC server that does not accept user connections
IRC operator Person that runs a IRC server.
IRC cop Name for IRC operators some people like to use. Probally becuase IRC operators have to enforce rules on the users of their servers.
jupe When you jupe a nick you take a nick for it too keep. You can for example use a "jupe-bot" that will take your nick when you leave IRC, this way someone else is not able to "jupe your nick". The term is also used to describe when a fake server is linked in place of a normal server, when the normal server is unable to connect to the network, this to prevent that hostile servers can link to the network to cuase problems. The name comes from a age old IRC Oper named "jupiter", he had fun "juping" users nicks and thus pretend to be them.
kick Remove a user from a channel. The user can rejoin the channel right after the kick. Is usually used to really make clear to the user that whatever he was doing has to stop.
Lag The time it takes before your text reaches the person you are talking to. Although we speak of "Internet Highway", it sure looks like a old sandy road in the middle of the mountains sometimes, especially on IRC.
Lamer A idiot, often used when someone misbehaves. For example when he doesn not read the rules of a channel, and next break them.
leaf IRC server that accepts user connections.
Leech Only get information for yourself, and not uploading/bringing in information yourself. Leechers are often identified soon on a channel, after wich they are often ignored for good. These people are also referred to as Leechers.
Lurker Close to a leecher, but not completely egocentric.
netbus Another Trojan Horse
Netiquette Word formed from Internet and Etiquette. Even tho the Internet is very anarchistic in nature, there are a lot of unwritten rules you have to follow. Like being a leecher is bad, or dropping in a channel and start to a/s/l (asking for Age Sex and Location) everyone, those are all things that can be regarded as very rude, and not in the line of proper netiquette
Netsplit Occurs when a connection between servers break. You can end up on one side of the split, and the person you where talking to, on the other side. You either have to wait for a IRC oper to reconnect the two servers, or goto the server in question where your friend is on.
newbie Formed from "new" and "wannabe". Someone that is new to IRC, and has still a lot to learn about netiquette, and technical IRC stuff in general.
nick Name a person uses on IRC.
nuke A DoS attack that make use of vunerabilities of Operating Systems. Can cuase reboots, disconections, etc
Protocol Set of rules 2 computers or more have to follow to establish a certain type of communication. IRC is a protocol, but for example also FTP (File transfer Protocol).
Re "re" is short for "regex" which is short for "regular expression", which is a Unixism for doing text manipulation. A regular expression also happens to be "hello" or "goodbye". Thus the word "re" was used in IRC (since it was begun on an AT&T Unix machine, serving Unix geeks).
Router One of the most vital parts of the Internet, but also the most forgotten one. Routers handle the traffic on undernet, they receive the packets of information, look at the IP adress, and then tried to send it along on the fastest and most short route to the receiver of it. All traffic on Internet passes the routers on their way to their destination.
sendq The data that waits for transmission
server Computer that hosts the IRC program. Here the users connect to to get on IRC. There are two types of servers, Leaf's, that accept user connections, and Hub's that only are linked to other servers.
Shareware Software you can usually use for a period of time, after wich you have to pay for it. Shareware is usually cheap software costing something in the range of 10$-50$
shell Terminal like interface to a Unix machine, on IRC mostly a account on a Unix machine, for the cuase of running a eggdrop or bouncer.
smurf DoS attack, massive amounts of ICMP data Often used to bring whole IRC servers down.
take over Forcefully gain ops on a channel. Not really friendly, and opers can G-Line you for these types of actions.
telnet Protocol that allows you to connect to a remote machine, and use the interface to perform tasks on that machine. (like setting up, and running/managing a eggdrop bot)
Trojan Program that looks like something you really want to see, but turns out to give other users control over your machine in a way, that you wish you never activated/accepted the file.
warez Software you havent paid for. ie, illegally copied.
WinNuke Well known DoS attack Affected mostly the Windows 95 Operating System.