HA...Gina, please don't make me go find the list again. IRC?
Sorry about that, Lady Deb. I realized as I pressed submit that some here probably wouldn't know what IRC is, but I decided not to edit the post because I also figured nobody would care.
IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat. It's a very old, text-only chat system. Many, many things around it, but one thing was that you didn't have the GUI you have now, so you had to recognize things like
![Smile :) :)](/styles/byc-smilies/smile.png)
![Stick Out Tongue :p :p](/styles/byc-smilies/tongue.png)
![Wink ;) ;)](/styles/byc-smilies/wink.png)
Believe it or not, I actually miss it.