Ben Hur Horse Race
so (and this may have changed, i used to go on irc mainly in the fuckin 90s) but you need a client, back in the day the big ones were mIRC and pIRCh. i am an mIRC loyalist myself.
it comes with a server list, you just double click on a server and itll connect you. then if you type /list it will list all the channels (rooms). you can see how many people are in each channel, and you can double click on the channel list to join one. then type away
I’ve come to truly dislike London over about half a dozen visits. You wait forever to pay a lot for something very average, and the buzz of the city is a little hostile and up it’s own ass.
My wife went without me recently for a two day spin and stayed in one neighborhood the entire time, so no long trips to go to a restaurant or theater anywhere she wouldn’t walk from where she was staying and she said it was much nicer of any previous experience, so maybe that’s the trick.