AfterX.net

Welcome to the world of IRC, and in particular, the AfterX IRC network!

To get onto our network, just connect to one of our servers with your favorite IRC client or feel free to use our Mibbit client. If you are new to IRC, visit this page on our Wiki for a walkthrough on connecting to our network. If you are having problems, see this page, or post your question on our forums. And, if you are interested in linking your server to our network, see this page.

Unlike many of the smaller IRC networks, AfterX has a long and varied history which can be traced back to the Icenet days back in April 1996. IceNet was formed April 1996 by Vinny & IceMan in Grandview, Missouri, USA. It all began with a single server ice-castle.sound.net which was ran on a 386dx40 in a townhouse basement. On August 19th 1997, Xnet IRC Network was born out of issues surrounding the IceNet IRC network. The founders created a custom IRCd known as Xnet IRCd with custom Xnet Services. In 2000 we changed from Xnet IRCd to HybdridIRCd as it was realised the IRCd was becoming outdated and lacking features needed to combat increasingly sosphicated clones, bots and attacks. We then quickly changed to Unreal IRCd and IRC Services. Xnet, in 2004, became AfterX (meaning "After Xnet") when the nominated owner of the domain name wanted to circumvent the decisions of the Network Committee (Net-Com). To this day, AfterX remains as the current domain of our network. For the past twelve years, AfterX has retained some users and staff, a core strength of our stability and maturity. You can find a current list of servers linked to our network here.

The main official channel of the network is #AfterX, and you can find some lively chats underway on just about any topic. Be warned that some of the chat can be of "adult" content - much of IRC is like this also. If you have any problems, you can try #AfterX-help where our staff will try and help you with any network-related questions you may have. If there is no response (everyone may be asleep or busy), you can leave a message in the channel or post a question on our forums.

The network provides a number of Services to help make your chat experience fun and easy. For example, we use NickServ to "reserve" our nicknames so that someone else can't use it, and similarly for ChanServ with channels/rooms. MemoServ allows you to send a short message to another registered nickname if he/she is not on IRC at the time. In addition, AfterX also runs a HostServ module which provides our community with the ability to hide their IP address with a custom alternative (vhost). More information on the HostServ module can be found on the IRC Service Community forums. You can also find more information about these services on the AfterX Wiki.

Each public server on the network currently runs Unreal IRCd 3.2.6. Click this link to visit the Unreal development website and to learn more about it.

And, last but not least, you can see our charter - the AfterX Charter which we all abide by and also the rules which can also be found by typing the /rules command in IRC. The rules are practical information based on some of the charter.

Thank you for sailing AfterX, and we hope you enjoy your voyage!