IRC Networks

Today there are several thousand servers running IRC networks in the world. They run various implementations of IRC servers, and are administered by various groups of Ops (who are identified by the "@" before their screen name and the Satan palpably leaking from their black, black hearts), but the protocol exposed to IRC users is very similar, and all IRC networks can be accessed by the same client software.

Anonymuncule

~~Home of the recently resurrected ED IRC. *irc.anonymuncule.com~~

AnonNet

AnonNet is basically a gay cybersex mmorpg, so naturally anonymous soon felt right at home there - causing all the other irc networks to become jelous and ddos the living fuck out of their servers. Following the partyvan imposion AnonNET joined with SP IRC and rehomed the remaining Chanology channels, including #london #manchester #nyc #wwp and a load of others.. Later it went on to feature more useless shit like #timevote #bestactever #iran #marblecake #titstorm #Projectfreeweb and various internet radio stations including #flux and #nethalt.

Buttes

Buttes, the home of #flashsupport, a truly amazing place full of Tcl masters, recently merged with Hardchats. Can be reached via irc.buttes.org.

Chatnets

Has 5 servers. New home of #711chan, #pn, and the revived (and hopefully soon dead) PartyVan.fm: [1]

also gorfnets is linked. frens chats w/ gorfs, no flood limits, ascii, #chats (irc.gorf.us)

euIRC

European IRC Network, where all the Eurofags hang out since the Servers with US-people are "too stupid" for them. Nobody outside of Europe knows about euIRC though, making it tantamount to a concentration camp.

EFnet

Eris Free Net, the original IRC server network. By far the most culturally prolific IRC network. Occasionally those unfamiliar with IRC ask "What does EFnet got that _Insert random retarded small network here_ hasn't?"

The only proper answer to this is "everything". Except nickname services. It has great channel services that registers your channel as you idle as an operator! You don't have to mess with registrations, passwords, email validation... 'cause it's leet like that.

The pastime of EFnet is OP wars: fighting over who is channel operator. These are won by whoever can perform denial of service attacks the best. They are started by: (1) boredom of visitor, (2) OPs who ban people from boredom.

The Penis Pump trolls often times keep the EFnet opers busy, because opers are summoned to their channel at least 100 times a day. This has died down as of late, but going into #efnet and calling the ops fags is still fun. Other channels of note include #computers (sup port forwarding), #stress, #depression, #space_ghetto, and #sex, none of them really need any explanation as you will find the lulz within the first few minutes of connecting.

A variety of users live on EFnet including infamous trolls such as wispurs, ex0tica and sloth who own the lulzy channel #stress and little worthless bitches like efsneable and fats who are a couple of multiple bottom feeders there. The epic IRC user qwikk also visits EFnet sometimes and the faggotry tranny such as HelenaKty also known as Ryan.

An example of the terrible chats in #stress include:

<yossy> sobored does not deserve to live after his mediocore chats <busty> boring chats <sobored> dont be like that <CoMBo> show me a link to this spell <yossy> i will give you the spell CoMBo <yossy> $50 <yossy> paypal <CoMBo> need url

EFnet's channel #israel is a major source of lulz as it is filled with Zionists. For example, stealing some Jewlulz with Creativity:

 <Cr34tiv3> Why don't jews just be friends with Palestinians?
 <FloydTB> shut up
 <FloydTB> he is just boring
 <FloydTB> shaye, whats your job now?
 <FloydTB> how much money are you making?
 <Cr34tiv3> I have neighbors who are Palestinian too, and they don't bother me
 <shaye> ye bezeq
 <dov> what kind of attitude is that, Cr34tiv3 ?
 <shaye> dov ban him :)
 <Cr34tiv3> How do you scare a Jew?
 <Cr34tiv3> Put him in the oven.
 <Cr34tiv3> OH WAIT NO I MESSED UP! 
 <Cr34tiv3> I meant to say "Turn the oven on!"
 <Cr34tiv3>I always mess that one up at our Hitler Youth meetings.
 <shaye> dov ban him :)
 <Cr34tiv3> DOV MEANS BEAR
 <Cr34tiv3> OMG I KNOW THAT
 <dov> hump Cr34tiv3 like this
 <Cr34tiv3> I read that in The Chosen
 <Cr34tiv3> by chaim potok
 <FloydTB> can you ban this guy?
 <Cr34tiv3> Are Jews still mad at Russians? BEcause Dov is Bear in Russian.
 <FloydTB> Hey stop man.
 <Cr34tiv3> Your IRC channel is secretly run by Russian neo-nazis!
 <Cr34tiv3> If they request you take a journey by train, don't!
 <FloydTB> Look, you're pissing us off.
 <Cr34tiv3> That means they are taking you to Auschwitz1
 <Cr34tiv3> Why aren't there any Jewish mothers on parole boards?
 <Jerusalem> Do you think you are funny?
 <Cr34tiv3> They'd never let anyone finish a sentence!
 <shaye> oh my god ban him!
 <Cr34tiv3> You mean Yaweh?
 <shaye> dov ban him
 <Cr34tiv3> What does Hezbollah missle feel like?
 <shaye> SHUT THE FUCK UP!
 <Cr34tiv3> Why is money green?
 <shaye> GET TEH FUCK OUT!
 <Cr34tiv3> Jews pick it before its ripe
 >>> User shaye has been kicked off #israel by dov (Banned: No cursing.)
 <Cr34tiv3> So anyway, why do you Jews smell so bad?
 <Cr34tiv3> Like you know, its a mix of dirty dollar bills and latkes?
 <dov> hump Cr34tiv3 like this
  mode/#israel [+b *!*@adsl-75-6-149-4.dsl.skt2ca.sbcglobal.net] by
           Jerusalem
 >>> You have been kicked off #israel by Jerusalem (Banned: like this)
  [#israel] Banned from channel

IRCnet

IRCnet is also the original IRC network (depending on whom you ask). Actually, the original network does not exist anymore, because it was split into EFnet and IRCnet somewhere in the mid-1990s after some deep disagreement and a lot of drama between European and American IRC operators. This event is called The Great Split by IRC historologists. In practice, most of the European, Australian and Japanese servers (as well as an American server named Eris) went to the IRCnet side and the rest of the world to the EFnet side.

IRCnet is now mostly populated by European nerds and old farts who have been using the network for the last 15 to 40 years and are definitely not going to switch away. There are also many Polish and Italian trolls and that's why Poland and Italy have been permanently banned from most of the IRCnet channels. And yes, since the IRCnet operators are bored purists who don't want to change anything, IRCnet has even less services-like functionality than EFnet.

Undernet

What IRC looks like if you are on Bantown.

An IRC network with only channel services and lots of people who idle and trade child porn. It only has around five servers these days, you'd think they could keep them from splitting. Capcom thought they would be clever and in Shameless Mega Man Spinoff #237, used the name for the computer network equivalent of Compton.

DALnet

Where everyone was before they made it to UnderNet, former object of hatred for EFNet users. Now an internet ghost town full of pedo daddies with small dicks who want nothing more but to rape their lil girl while their mummy sleeps and hang around in #teens pretending they are 13 year old girls.

Helldive Network

Formerly formerly lulznet, and formerly Partyvan, the network consisted of roughly 12 servers, including 711chan's former IRC server PN. The network was home to #insurgency (formerly on EFnet), #tomgreen (formerly on Rizon until Axila took over), and various anon-oriented channels.

Partyvan has died. Januszeal ~~told everybody to pack their shit and go home, so they did as he pulled the plug on services and Partyvan softly faded away.~~ slowly pissed off everyone on the server by being a general fuckup and not knowing how to run an irc server. The ones who knew what they were doing left to form over 9000 other networks, and Januszeal sat alone in his room and cried. It has many leaves, but almost all of them are hosted on 10 year old computers in Januszeal's bedroom. He is desperately trying to revive partyvan, and is doing an excellent job, once again proving his skills and intelligence by linking with IRC servers run on windows ME desktop computers by 19 year old aspies who live in their parents' basement in bumfuck Louisiana.

Helldive is currently dead after a massive jizz war and januszeal ragequitting. The servers have since split up into multiple networks, including TsukiIRC, wtfux,and xax.li. NekoArc and most of the other opers have moved their shit to TsukiIRC.

Rizon

Home to #4chan and #8chan and many fansubbing animé faggot groups. The most frequent line articulated across Rizon is "^_^". In 2007, operator Jason Michael Downey received an IRL banhammer from the FBI and is currently working his way through a one year sentence for using a botnet to DOS other networks and their operators. One was unlucky enough to [ lose $19,500 because of the attacks], the biggest loss to the IRC world since Rob Levin met the front end of a Ford Taurus.

XANNET

Some IRC network full of fucking drug addicts. A relatively new network started by a bunch of cunts that were banned from every other irc network for spamming every god damn chat they join with links to gay / tranny porn and horrible ansi art, along with using every annoying irssi script ever made in excess See: cancer

“	IRC is stupid. Go away.	„
—moot

SandNET

Home to #ARAB (Association of Raged Arab Bloggers), #r4l-social, #grove and #anti.

Other Notable Networks

People sophisticatedly expressing their joy on IRC.

What IRC looks like if you are on Freenode.

TsukiIRC: Most of helldive's servers moved here after it's death. Originally run by NekoArc and derpcat, it has since been a source of drama and autism by people that have been eventually booted from the network, including derpcat, Deviance, Darkgrammer, and Kashiwaba Tomoe. It's full of trannies, weeaboos, and russians.
The private network idlenet, governed by the evil cj contains the popular and dramatic channel insub. Don't go there, you won't like it.
Nightstar is where #wiigii! lives. You probably shouldn't go there either, as the stench of unwashed fanboy is strong.
EmpireIRC is probably the only place on the interwebz where there is around 5 servers to cater to 10 poke-nerds. It is a waste of time to even go there due to a weird cult following of a senior member by the nickname of Rex. His obsession with cows will break down even the toughest of minds and if that doesn't kill you listening to his mindless minions talk about him when he is not there will.
LinkNet is the home of most of the warez movement, but that will not be apparent upon entering it. Everyone moved there after they realized EFNet was just making them accessible to 13-year-old boys
zirc is the network of choice for users of the Something Awful forums. It is rumored that the SALJers are there too but noone is sure where now that #salj is defunct. Recent drama has led most servers and users to switch to the new network SynIRC.
Slashnet was created by Slashdot, and has attendant amounts of suck. Dupe channels are frequent and many channels are just thinly disguised trolls.
ICQNet is the official IRC network for popular chat protocol ICQ, so you just know it's going be AOLicious. ICQAOLNet funnels 13 year old boys, 16 year old girls and 45 year-old pedophiles in from their webpage, with promises of hot cyber. At first glance this may appear to be a joke, but amongst the top channels is #teens, # z40_Something and #Looking_For_Love.
Freenode is the crap network run by ~~Rob Levin~~ and is the IRC locale of choice for open source, Wikipedia, and Lunix fanboys; consequently, the opportunities for drama are considerable. Freenode's stupid faggotry ops are so uptight on k-lining everyone that even the GNAA DDoSed their lil cunt 27 servers.
GameSurge, is a North American IRC network focused on video games. It is here you will gain access to a plethora of channels dedicated to gaming. Whether you're looking for a team to join or to start, or simply to build upon, the network is home to all competitive NA teams and features channels that allow you to find scrims, ringers and teams. Counter-Strike: Source (CSS) and Counter-Strike 1.6 provide the network with the most activity, but it is also hosts official channels for other games such as TF2, L4D, CoD4, etc.
Abducted IRC, a network for evil foreigners.
Underworldweb, a network for elitist loser drug tards.
DeltaAnime, usually for online games like Ragnarok, L2 Online, etc. -- Make sure to annoy the ops as much as you can here. They're all really blatant aspies. Paul, A co-owner, and Francisco(Delta) the owner, who both contain untold amounts of butthurt (Also Paul got v& once.)
IRCHighway, for teenage weeaboos and Desuchan. Also home to #katawa-shoujo. Often it is owned by NCF and faces mass +im of channels.
Aniverse was the former server for animu and fansubbing groups before DDoS attacks and allegations of its owner, Ukyo who is
Austnet, simply the best IRC network to troll. If you get glined, leave it to attempt to reconnect...it'll work after a few tries. Everyone here is seemingly stupid.
Megatokyo, taking donation money to fly to Japan. Almost everyone that wasn't a faggot of #megatokyo jumped to Rizon making it the new home of absolute shit. Nothing of value was lost.
ARG-IRC, full of idiots, ex-channers, fun to troll, owner, Magick is sum elite haxxor home of the Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series IRC chat and TeamFourStar. All network staff are butt-hurt pre-op transsexuals, who love nothing more than to engage trolls.
Anthrochat Furry irc, easy to troll, fun to get them pissed.
Bitcast is pretty much an empty network that runs on iintens' servers. The only thing it is good for is for hackers to run their secret botnets - sometimes a few people drop by and dramachat - irc.bitcast.ws
IRCStorm.net is a fairly well populated server with a userbase composed mostly of people living in the southern US, or people from the southern US living elsewhere. Was created by a couple of ancient, inbred hicks who have disappeared after they got divorced and one of them died. The users/staff typically make George W. Bush look like Richard Dawkins, and as such are fun to troll. Channels of note are #lobby, #teen-chat, #christians, #schizophrenia and #narecoverychat (a 12-step chatroom).
Echonode.com is a network built for security and privacy protection. The main sysop on the other hand, has more bolts loose in his head then that uncle you your who would stare at your sister at Chanukah. Trolling opportunities are limited, as you will be g-lined pretty quickly if you break TOS. (Though their 'new' policy is that you cannot be removed without a court order or unless you have insulted the Scout) Evading is easy and pisses the staff off though. Say next to anything about the Scout from TF2 for a quick ban due to its being run by a guy that wants his dick. Otherwise, however, it's a relatively good network, especially for anon due to its housing and support of Operation Invade Wallstreet before the admin got pissed because they wanted to DDoS ALL the things.
hardchats is the GNAA server for all things gay and dark skinned.
wtfux is jihad's shitty network and home to ED IRC.
irc.maract.us - loldongs
KottNet is a small IRC network of 12 year old kiddies who like to whine about their e-penis. Shaboozey is the networks top troll, an estonian fag who likes to swing his e-penis at HelenaKitty (aka Ryan also known as Helena Bolan) due to the amount of hatred he has for her. TommehM (aka Tom Mclaughlin) and Ollie (aka Ollie Nixon) like to see who can troll each other the most. HelenaKitty is the most hated fag on Kottnet. Vijfhoek (Former oper) on the other hand rage quit after being raped to death by e-penis.