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 It consists of localised servers that are all linked up to form a seamless chat network so if you are based in England you would connect to a nearby server in England and you would see exactly the same people as someone connecting to a server in the USA.
-To connect to the IRCnet network you first need a suitable client. For users of Mozilla browsers (like Firefox), the plugin [https://addons.mozilla.org/en/firefox/addon/16 ChatZilla] is surely a good option. You can also use [http://www.xchat.org/ XChat] (Linux and Windows), [http://sourceforge.net/projects/xchataqua/ X-Chat Aqua] (X Chat Mac), [http://www.silverex.org/ SilverEx] (X Chat windows Free Build),  [http://www.pidgin.im/ Pidgin], [http://colloquy.info/ Colloquy] (for Mac), [http://www.mirc.com/ mIRC] or any other client.
+To connect to the IRCnet network you first need a suitable client. You can also use [http://www.xchat.org/ XChat] (Linux and Windows), [http://sourceforge.net/projects/xchataqua/ X-Chat Aqua] (X Chat Mac),  [http://www.pidgin.im/ Pidgin], [http://colloquy.info/ Colloquy] (for Mac/iOS), [http://www.mirc.com/ mIRC], [https://Konversation.kde.org Konversation] or any other client.
 When you first login to the network you must pick yourself a unique nickname for the current chat session. Nicknames can be up to 31 characters in length and contain numbers and some punctuation characters. Some examples of nicknames you can use are: