This week I decided to learn about irc?
I knew this was known as Internet relay chat and has been around a long time. I've met people who raved about it but I never found the use as I always used web forums of posed a question, but what about real time help? Queue IRSSI
I used irssi as it was pre-installed on my crunchbang, it's a terminal application, I personal like the command line so I fired it up.
First thing I saw was a command prompt? I quick Google brought up lots of information on irc and irssi. I soon realised I needed to type "/connect irc.freenode.net" this logged me into a server, ok straight forward.
Next to connect to a irc channel, I knew there was one for crunchbang so typed "/join #crunchbang" and volia I was engaged in a chat about subject matter I knew about. I learned to use /quit or /wc to exit and even tried running multiple sessions to servers.
All in all I like it, and that's why it is my topic of the week, why not give it a go yourself, there's lot's of like minded people out there who don't bite, not much anyway. 
