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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 I haven't used it for decades but it calms me that it is still very alive.

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Unlike 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.

I'd hope Khaled would open source it if he decides to give it up

This 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

IRC is very simple. I used to connect with telnet if a client wasn't available.

Isn'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?

Correct, mIRC is just one of many clients for an IRC protocol.

Yes, yes, just a client, but for me it was the first interface to whole new world, so I will never forget it.

slaps you with a trout

I genuinely LOLed, thanks for that! :) What a flashback.

I was reminded of that when analysing the Skype (now Teams) protocol and found that one of the domains it uses was trouter.io.

IRC 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.

mIRC has the same chance of dying as Irssi. As in none.

I remember choosing irrsi over bitchx because the latter was "too complicated" for me at the time.

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