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Irssi
Text-mode IRC client / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Irssi (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈirsːi] (listen)) is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client program for Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Microsoft Windows. It was originally written by Timo Sirainen, and released under the terms of the GNU GPL-2.0-or-later in January 1999.[1]
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Original author(s) | Timo Sirainen |
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Developer(s) | The Irssi team |
Initial release | January 1999; 25 years ago (1999-01)[1] |
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Written in | C, Perl[3] |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Type | IRC client |
License | GPL-2.0-or-later[4] |
Website | irssi |
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The program has a text-based user interface was written from scratch using C. It may be customized by editing its config files or by installing plugins and Perl scripts. Though initially developed for Unix-like operating systems, it has been successfully ported to both Windows and macOS.