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Same for me but the day I will really cry a little will be when mIRC dies. It was my introduction to instant effortless free worldwide communication. Of course
by weinzierl 2y ago
Same for me but the day I will really cry a little will be when mIRC dies. It was my introduction to instant effortless free worldwide communication. Of course I haven't used it for decades but it calms me that it is still very alive.
- jan_Sate 2y agoUnlike ICQ, mIRC is just an IRC client and even if it dies, the IRC networks would remain accessible using other IRC clients. That said it'd be a pity if mIRC dies.
- RankingMember 2y agoI'd hope Khaled would open source it if he decides to give it up
- freedomben 2y agoThis is starting to feel even more important now that HexChat is over.[1] Is anyone aware of maintained forks or a revival effort? [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39326630 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39326630
- okasaki 2y agoIRC is very simple. I used to connect with telnet if a client wasn't available.
- nick238 2y agoIsn't mIRC just a client for IRC (a standard), but ICQ is centralized? Or are there some "mIRC"-branded servers out there that run popular IRC channels?
- aleksandrm 2y agoCorrect, mIRC is just one of many clients for an IRC protocol.
- weinzierl 2y agoYes, yes, just a client, but for me it was the first interface to whole new world, so I will never forget it.
- edm0nd 2y agoslaps you with a trout
- alluro2 2y agoI genuinely LOLed, thanks for that! :) What a flashback.
- userbinator 2y agoI was reminded of that when analysing the Skype (now Teams) protocol and found that one of the domains it uses was trouter.io.
- Freedom2 2y agomIRC has the same chance of dying as Irssi. As in none.
- kirenida 2y agoI remember choosing irrsi over bitchx because the latter was "too complicated" for me at the time.
- bitwize 2y agoIRC will never die. I met my wife on IRC ~25 years ago, it'll still be here when we're old. Or at least it will die like USENET died: becoming only of interest to spammers and pornographers.