:: Internet CB NETwork ::

ICB (Internet Citizen's Band) is an Internet teleconferencing program that uses a client-server model to allow users across the Internet to communicate with each other.

If you have any additions, suggestions, comments, questions, or corrections, please let me know. if you have a client or server not listed here, please send me (nick sl'lee, default.icb.net) a /write so you can be added.

If you are interested in writing your own client, you can view the V1 protocol specifications here.

4/23/04: initial proof of concept work done on a new v2 XML-based protocol available here with flash client

Other Resources

Icb History

John Rudd's historical first icb site

Current ICB Servers
	You can pick up the current list of available ICB servers at ftp://ftp.icb.net/pub/icb/servers. If you'd like your server added to this list (and listed with a CNAME in icb.net), send a /write to sl'lee (default.icb.net).

Clients
Description	Platform(s)	Contact	Download
CICB The latest most commonly used client.	UNIX	hoche@grok.com	Web site
Android ICB An Android client.	Android	hoche@grok.com	Web site
IcyBee An IOS client.	IOS	scirocco6	Web site
ICBM Feature-rich, curses-based threaded client written in Perl. Requirements: perl 5.6 with ithreads support, available here	Any that support Perl w/ ithreads	alaric@caerllewys.net	Web site
Unix ICB "Classic" Client The old classic, tweaked by Eric Lechner, and then Jon Luini, and then Jon Luini and Michel Hoche-Mong. No further development on this client is expected (but happens sometimes anyways).	UNIX	falcon@chimeinteractive.com	UNIX source
Python ICB Client Should run on anything that has python. Requirements: python w/ termios compiled in, available here	UNIX, Win95, Mac	zenomt@zenomt.com	Python
JICB An ICB client written as a platform-independant Java application.	All which support Java	kamikaze@kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu	Web site
YALIC32 Anduin Withers' Windows client.	Win95/NT	awithers@anduin.com	Web site
Orcus ttk's client.	Unix	ttk@andansbutt.org	web site
ircII traditional unix ircII client with icb support.	UNIX, cygwin32	ircii@eterna23.net	FTP site
icbrc IRC -> ICB proxy server	UNIX	daniel@benzedrine.cx	Web site
irssi IRC client with ICB plugin	UNIX	webmaster@irssi.org	Web Sites: IRSSI & ICB plugin

Servers
Description	Platform(s)	Contact	Download
Server 1.2c (aug 23, 2000) Latest public version of the main server code. This used to be the chime & evolve release but was changed to just be the default with no special name. Many bugs have been fixed from Darkside version and a number of features added. Originally based on Darkside Server version 1.3.221 (1995). FTP CVS Snapshot (updated nightly at 2am)	Most UNIX varients. Verified on FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris 2.	sl'lee (default.icb.net)	icbd-latest.tgz