The fact that this is still sometimes the most practical solution is amazing to me. I was trying to get an IRC client for my Droid so I could talk to my friends

The fact that this is still sometimes the most practical solution is amazing to me. I was trying to get an IRC client for my Droid so I could talk to my friends during a road trip I was on, but the connectivity was poor enough that any local client would leave gaps in the channel logs whenever I was out of service. After searching a bit for something that would hold my message buffer server-side, I ended up just SSHing into my VPS and running irssi through screen.