The source code behind Microsoft's 30 year old Comic Chat IRC client is now available on Github for the first time.

Although kids these days tend to hang out on so-called “Social Media”, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) was first, by decades. IRC is a real-time communication technology that allows people to socialize ...

Congress is quietly drifting toward an ID-verified internet. The Children Harmed by AI Technology (CHAT) Act of 2025 is Washington's newest attempt to regulate speech through mandatory age checks.

Microsoft's IRC client from the 90s was intended to spice up “Internet Relay Chat” with graphical elements. Now it's becoming open source.

There has been a lot of news lately about sexual predators on the Internet trying to contact kids. Do your parents allow you to use online chat rooms? Why or why not? Do you think it can be a ...

It’s a word ripped from Twitch streams, but it functions as a Greek chorus for an online, isolated generation. By Barrett Swanson While serving as an English professor at a small Midwestern university ...

Sydney Robinson is the showrunner, director, writer, cinematographer and star of the internet’s new favorite show: a series of TikToks about a girls’ group chat. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

A report released Monday by The Atlantic's editor-in-chief outlining how he came to be in a group chat with top Trump administration officials as they discussed plans to bomb Yemen has shaken the ...