icbm (extensible threaded ICB client in Perl) ICB (Internet CB) is a teleconferencing system that allows Internet users to participate in realtime online discussions (similar to IRC). ICBM is a threaded ICB client written in Perl5 which supports a superset of the functionality of CICB (the ICB C Client, the de facto standard ICB client). This allows ICBM to be readily extended to support many features that CICB does not, and to gracefully do a number of things that CICB does poorly if at all. Note: in some terminals (e.g. urxvt), when icbm exits, it will leave the terminal in a state where the backspace key prints "^?" rather than backspacing. You can fix this with "stty erase ^?". Other terminals (e.g. xterm) don't have this problem.