Irssi

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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.

A screenshot of Irssi in action.
Irssi screenshot with /nick command entered.

References

https://irssi.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irssi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timo_Sirainen