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IRC is not a website.

Speaks a lot as to the changing sands of time.

IRC is not a website.

Neither is WhatApp, Discord, Slack and many of the other ones mentioned (yes you can interact with them via a website, but the same is true for IRC)

Yeah, you're right, even though we could say the same about Signal and others. In my defense, I know [1] very well - it's not a website!