Welcome to La Onda Network Internet Chat Room.
Enter your name in the box:

Please wait 10-20 seconds for
the Java program to download.
Also you have to grant the certificate request.

Here's some shortcuts that are used often:

lol means Laughing Out Loud
brb means Be Right Back
bbl means Be Back Later
wb means Welcome Back

You can now chat in La Onda Network's IRC room using your Netscape or Internet Explorer browser!
Netscape 4.0, IE 4.0 or above is required. Also, Java has to be enabled.

#laonda chat room is mainly for discussing Tejano/Mexicano music related information. But being a public forum, anything goes.

This chat room is governed by anyone having the "@" symbol by their name which means they have "ops". This mean they can kick you out of the chat room or even ban you from coming back in. If you feel that you were kicked out or banned without any real good reason, please email me the time and date and I will check the log file for that day and determine if that's true. The person responsible will than lose their "ops".

You will not be given "ops" as a new chatter. After participating in the chat room regularly for at least 3-4 weeks without any problems, you will then might be considered for "ops".

A lot of the people in the chat room have been there for quite some time. Some over 4 years. Some of us stay logged onto the chat room all day long but most of us are at work so sometimes there will not be any response. Please wait around for a few minutes before deciding no one is around to chat. People come in and out all day long, most missing each other by only a few minutes.

jIRC Commands

There following commands are supported by jIRC applet. All IRC commands are start with "/".  Some of the commands below are for jIRC applet only, some are common IRC commands that usrs may frequently use.
Command Description
/clear Clear the chat message screen.
/nick 'nick_name' Change your current nick name to a new 'nick_name'
/join '#new_channel_name' Leave your current channel and join a new channel.
Remember to supply "#" at the begining of your channel name.
/quit 'optional good bye message' Leave your current channel and disconnect from IRC network.
/msg 'nick' 'your message' Send a private message to a user with nick name 'nick'
/action Display the message in action format. 
/topic ; /topic '#channel' 'your topic' Display your current channel's topic or set your channel's topic
/ctcp 'nick_name' 'command' CTCP command includes "version", "clientinfo", "time", "echo"
/showurl 'http://someurl.com' Pop up a new browser window with the given URL content
/s 'sound_file' Play an audio file from the web server. The audio file name is "sound_flie.au" in this case and must be located on the same directory of your applet file.
"%C4message %C9,3this is color" This is a special way to create multiple color within single message.
Use the "%C" to indicate a color code ( equevalent to Crl-K in mIRC).