Man i miss my IRC Days ! Still have real life friends from that. Also got my fist MP3 'file-send' to me..Lol anyone remembers the wareZz-IRC-Bots/channels. Lol apart from competing in content they also competed in terms of colors/ascii graphics.
Still thinks its miles better than slack/skype for inter-office communication(Notice i said communication not app/task-tracking/1001-Things our over-engineered 'chat-programs' provide today).
XChat - Good times :)
PS. Would love to see some benchmarking for a modern-irc-daemon written in say Go or something else with good concurrency primatives. Was quite a issue 'back in the day' the max clients per server.