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For sure, mIRC was the good old days. Windows 98 and houndstooth wallpaper :P.

I still use IRC to this day, just the client and the OS are different.

I suddenly feel the urge to slap something around a bit with a large trout.

Can you whip a llama’s ass with it?

Don't forget to put on your robe and wizard hat

I love this thread. We spent so much time in mIRC, about warez, weirdness but obviously tons of programming. Fun was had :)

I still use mIRC. It pretty much works like in the old days and has aged very well IMHO, I've tried other clients but none would convince me to switch. Now I even have a license (when I started using it, maybe at 15 or so, I was too broke for that).

Winamp hasn't aged so well, sadly.

I switched to a terminal IRC client and then SSH into a remote machine that runs the client. That way, I'm always connected, even when my laptop lid closes. Also, sadly, it looks like mIRC still only runs on windows.

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