Irssi
From ICO wiki
The command line IRC client. Irssi is FOSS (licensed under the GPLv2) and is available for Linux, BSD, Solaris, Apple and Cygwin. It was developed by Timo Sirainen and was released in the beginning of 1999.
Installing
With apt sudo apt-get install irssi
With other package managers, distros and platforms, see following link: Get Irssi
Setting up
Connect to rajaniemi.freenode.net -- the closest freenode IRC server and join #itcollege channel.
Used Sources
https://irssi.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irssi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timo_Sirainen