For over 25+ years, IRC has been what we know it to be today. A great medium to chat with friends, support online communities, and do business. But when you look back upon those decades, you see other text mediums have innovated and evolved, whereas IRC has remained the same.

The Web went from purely text, to integrated with graphics, and in the end became a completely different experience for surfers. One can't help but look at the evolutions of the web, email, and other internet systems and feel left out wondering "where is all of our cool stuff?" and "where are our upgrades?". With the lack of anything new, IRC has sadly shed hundreds of thousands of users and had relatively few new people migrate to it vs. the other messaging technologies in the last decade. Many people have felt the best days of IRC were behind it.

With the introduction of ETGiRC, this trend is about to change. The future of IRC is going to be bright and full of possibilities once more! "A complete evolutional leap" is the most accurate description as to what ETGiRC is. It's not just another chat client, some small upgrade/change, or some feature added to IRC. It is a complete shift in IRC, in what we see, in how we use it, in what it offers us, and in how we interact and experience it.

IRC, as a chat service, is really comprised of a plethora of 500+ individual IRC Networks, all offering different options and services customized to the needs of their users. This is actually one of the key reasons IRC has been successful with so many networks offering unique and personal experiences to their users, but also is the prime reason it also hasn't really been doing well in the last decade. As there is no central authority that could go and implement new things into the protocol or systems that would improve the experience for everyone on all networks. This is where ETGiRC comes in. ETGiRC is network independent, meaning you can keep using your favorite IRC Networks and enjoying the personal service they provide you, and the advanced features ETGiRC offers integrate with all of those various networks seamlessly with no changes needed on their or your parts!

Design Your Chat Room/Channel's Appearance:
The most important feature of ETGiRC is the introduction of customized chat rooms. No longer will every chat channel look the same! This not only helps with easily identifying what channel you are talking in, but will provide the users of each chat room/channel with a customized and unique experience. Representatives who run each respective channel on each IRC Network will be able to design the appearance and features of their chat room in much the same way they can design a custom webpage for their clan, organization, or company. They can add graphics, change positions and sizes of elements, change colors, add and customize button graphics/shapes, add tabs, add news feeds, and customize the look and feel of their channel in countless ways. Theme your room to be fun, or theme it to be serious. Theme it on your channel's subject, or theme it based on your website!

Whatever you do..   Just Theme It!

Some Examples:

Other IRC Features:
With multi-network support for 5 different simultaneous connections at a time, custom network configurations, and an advanced window management system, you can chat more effectively than ever. All this plus much more to make your chatting experience a great one! You can read a more complete list of IRC features by selecting the IRC features page on the left.

Play Games With Friends:
ETGiRC supports all 3 major game types: text-games, sprite-games, and fps type games. It supports the first 2 types internally with it's own game system, and the 3rd via a game query system and buddy list.

ETGiRC lets you play fun text and sprite games with friends from right inside the client! Great games that are developed by our own Game Studio, as well as games developed by 3rd party studios/groups for our open platform.

ETGiRC's Advanced Game Query System will obtain regional server lists from our own Master Server! This allows you to obtain servers only from the geographical regional locations you want to play in. Why bother downloading and pinging a list of servers where over half of the servers are half way around the world and you'd never play on them to begin with? This system eliminates that problem. With query support for the most popular games, and new games always being added, this is a great solution for FPS gamers looking for something more!

More information about ETGiRC for gamers, can be found on the feature page for gamers to the left