Some IRC Documentation

Hyperdocs

• IRC For Morons - Quick Introduction for PC or Mac-Users
• EFF's Extended Guide to the Internet - IRC section.
• The htmlized ircII Help Files.
• What's new in ircd version 2.9
• The History of IRC as seen by WiZ, Daemon and Trillian.
• Aspekte der IRC-Geschichte as seen by some other people.
• Administration of IRC in Europe: The rules and the people who make them.
• History of Electronic Multi-User Environments.

Technical documentation

• RFC1459 - Internet Relay Chat Protocol
• CTCP - the ClientToClient Protocol.
• DCC - the Direct Client Communication protocol.

Docs located in Germany (some mirrored from Boston)

• Introduction and Reference Manual to IRC, written by Strange (Rob Blais).
  This is not part of the standard IRC distribution, it is an independently written document.
  
• Standard IRC commands common to mostly all clients, again explained by Strange.
  
• IRC tutorial by rvl, parts one, two and three.
• A few more documents.

Logs from the #report channels, and more

• Gulf War log archive: 369711 bytes.
• USSR Gorbatchev 33853 bytes.
• David Barberi has more on the subject.