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How To Telnet
$ telnet irc.freenode.org 6667
... then magic happens...
Trying 185.30.166.38...
Connected to irc.freenode.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
:orwell.freenode.net NOTICE * :*** Looking up your hostname...
:orwell.freenode.net NOTICE * :*** Checking Ident
:orwell.freenode.net NOTICE * :*** No Ident response
:orwell.freenode.net NOTICE * :*** Couldn't look up your hostname
...then type in...
NICK foo
USER foo 8 * :foo
... wait for mass wall of text to finish ...
then type
JOIN #ruby
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