I think the beauty of IRC and the previous way of thinking when we built the internet was just this - we could hack any change or additional layer into the soft

I think the beauty of IRC and the previous way of thinking when we built the internet was just this - we could hack any change or additional layer into the software that we used. IRC was, with the exception of simple clients, codable, scriptable, extensible.* Software today is “what you get is all you get.” It’s pretty sad. * It was a human body script that caused you to look at this “*”. Scripting is powerful.