Coronation Street on IRC

Coronation Street, as you most likely know, is a long-running television programme (over 35 years now!) produced by Granada Studios. It's set in Weatherfield, a fictional suburb of Manchester, England (loosely based on Salford, I believe). It has always inspired great loyalty among it's many fans from all over the world. 

The continuing series stars Andrew Whyment as Kirk Sutherland and Jenny McAlpine as Fiz Brown. Other characters appear from time to time. :) 

For the last little while (about 6 years now), a group of Street fans has begun to gather on #coro_street, a channel on the SorceryNet IRC network, to talk about our affection for the show, and our opinions on it's various characters and plots, among other things.

 IRC is short for Internet Relay Chat, a way for people from anywhere in the world to talk to each other over the internet in real-time. If ten people are on the same channel, and one of them types something on their keyboard, it appears on the screens of the other nine almost instantaneously. 

You may not realize it, but if you are connected to the internet, you almost certainly can connect to IRC. All you need is a client (special software) and the name of a server.  Or, you might be able to use our shortcut. 

There are alot of different IRC networks using different sets of connected servers, Efnet, the Undernet, and DALnet (biggest to smallest) are the largest. We've started out at DALnet, but then switched over to a little gem of a network we found (SorceryNet). There are numerous channels on each of them dedicated to particular topics or themes, where people who are interested in the same subject can meet to chat.   Well ours is for Corrie fans, and you have to be on TGnet to find us! 

To find out how to connect with us, click on the link below. If you are new to this whole thing, just use the shortcut that you'll find there. So there, you have nothing to lose, and it really is a LOT of fun.