It was awesome. super fast, simple, no bloatware.

Then everybody moved to shitty online platforms for some reason. urgh...

>>105693739 (OP)

>>105693739 (OP)
It was almost entirely college students and IT guys. It was comfy as hell.

>>105693739 (OP)
>no bloatware
>he didn't l33t h4x0r scripts full of backdoors
you never really used it, then

>>105693739 (OP)
If only you could have logged in and were able to read what you missed while you were offline.

>>105693739 (OP)
it was obsolete and unsafe. nostalgia bonner is wrong most of the time.

other platforms could do the same thing simpler/faster/easier. i'd rather have stayed on irc and have it evolved

>>105693739 (OP)
The problem of mIRC is when you connected to IRC server with visible addresses (not spoofed/encrypted IP address shown on WhoIS). I really miss going on the IRC servers. It's almost 20 years from the last time I hanged out on one of them.

>>105693739 (OP)
>Remember this?
still use it

>>105695410
> problem with mirc
> goes on to ramble on about irc servers that don't generate host masks
mirc isn't a server, retard. it's an application. is there a white man older than 12yo in the house i can speak to?

for me it's kvirc. i use it for xdcc bots... and idling

For me it is irssi

>>105696241
>>105696271
> kvirc
> irssi
chads

for me its weechat and then gettin extremely irate when i have to setup every config option

The scripting language has bizarre limitations.

>>105693739 (OP)
I miss mIRC and I miss the scripting language that came with it.

mIRC scripting was my first taste of computer programming, ever. I didn't even know it was computer programming until my father looked at some 800 line .mrc file I was making to create a pokedex bot and said "Hey, that's some nice scripting you're doing".

If anyone remembers Pojo and Mediadriven, those were some great servers only because they banned eggdrop bots and thus, everyone had to make some stripe of scripting bot if they wanted to make any kind of chatroom game.

>>105694040
not really mIRC's goal, that's something you would get a BNC for. Which you could get on any major server to save backlog.

Or if you're real 1337 you have an old computer that just never turned off, only ran mIRC

It wasn't exactly bloat-free but oh well.

>>105694053
>it was obsolete and unsafe.
So are your shitty online platforms. IRC is still good today. Almost every major warez group still exists as an IRC channel but gets raided when they port their shit to glowcord.

>>105696442
Maybe if you're using irssi you could say otherwise but other than that, it was slim for its time.

>>105696241
kvirc is probably the best IRC client I ever used but mIRC was just more fun.

>>105694446
> i'd rather have stayed on irc and have it evolved
IRC is literally the perfect chat medium. Nothing stays forever. You exist in the moment with everybody, if you want to save a log you use a service individualized to your needs to do it on your behalf, and server owners were nebulous and usually would tell feds to fuck off.

An evolved version of this would likely be text chat requiring certificates to join channels for end-to-end encryption. Which some apps and programs already do but a bunch of them are outright backdoored and closed source. IRC never had this problem as it was just a standard.

>>105693739 (OP)
I used to get cracked porn passwords on irc.

>>105696614
I used to use gameshark codes because I had memorized them anyway

It was a good time

the + means I'm special

>>105696852
Yes, + symbol indicates that you are cliqued up

>>105693739 (OP)
Was? Still is. It's your problem for hanging out with people that jump from one hip thing to another. There are still rooms 20+ years old with life long friends that meet irl now and then.

>>105693739 (OP)
couldnt agree more... mirc was so fun. spent my best internet years on that. "social media" are so fucking depressing in comparison. maybe discord compares? Idk, never tried.
all hail khaled marbam bey

>>105693739 (OP)
Isn't Elon going to bring back XChat? Not exactly mIRC, but close enough.

>>105693808
This. Eyeball was fun those times.

>>105693739 (OP)
too barebones. everyone used it because there weren't any good alternatives. when skype released everyone moved there because it had more features and was more user friendly

tfw mirc was the reason how i discovered 4chan back in 2005
good times...

>>105693808
nah there were a lot of drop outs and deadshits that hung around on irc all day, it was a cesspool and most normally adjusted people left it the fuck behind.

>>105699494
there were a whole lot of normies because it was linked to some big websites' chatrooms, I met many girls from IRC

>>105693739 (OP)
>Then everybody moved to shitty online platforms for some reason. urgh...
mIRC has been bloated crap for as long as I remember, and I first used it like 20 years ago.

>>105693739 (OP)
the day when the half life 2 source code leaked, was one of the most golden days to be in IRC. Plenty of warez groups were active, ftp dumps full of script kiddies and hardcore autists sharing their secrets while proving your skills, a shit load of RTFM replies and thousand of hours of shit to read.

>you fucking n00b!
>l33t h4x

thanks fuck i lived some of the best and last years of it before torrents took over the scene. so many friends, weird creeps, incredible savants with tons of knowledge. I wish i could find back in dumbscord but its all fucking over.

>>105693739 (OP)
fuck my life for not being born earlier i deserve to grown up with this i would trade minecraft away for this in a heartbeat

>>105693739 (OP)
It still exists FWIW

>>105696271
based

>>105696852
>>105696947
it just means you're voiced

>>105698936
No. Fake news.
>>105699294
>too barebones.
Stupid Zoomer needs his profile pictures, link previews, and image uploads. He can't appreciate plain text.

>>105699494
this is congruent with my experience; i was transient, jobless, addicted to heroin, and reading entirely manga in my freetime when i was on irc every day

>>105701157
The software exists, but the communities are all gone.

it's bizarre reading about irc as if it was something that doesn't exist or isn't fun and useful anymore.

>>105693739 (OP)
it's called discord nowadays and has much more features
(trvthnvcke or smth)

>>105693739 (OP)
nah mirc sucked. i used xchat and later ychat

>>105694040
why is this necessary? it's a live chat

>>105693739 (OP)
A lot of folks still use IRC. HexChat is comfy even though it was abandoned last year, and Polaris is comfy too. Lots of other nice clients out there as well. Try 'em out.

>>105701306
More like BasedX

>>105701283
And voiced means you're in the clique, everything above is fucking jannies.