mIRC

An excellent IRC client for Windows (and Linux's Wine emulator), featuring a great (yet abused) scripting language and plenty of features.

This program was once "uncool" as all the 31337 haxx0rs used BitchX. BitchX featured stupidly-funny quit messages, was text based (and thus required intelligence), and, ironically, had a "documented feature" which by default sent the developer your log files. (The developer, panasync, once called himself "The King of Backdoor Scripts")

As time went on, BitchX was basically abandoned and lost its cultural relevance, and mIRC was finally given its proper respect. Linux users often use XChat, as well as other text-based clients such as ircii.

<geraldholmes> I love mIRC, it's a great IRC client.

<tuxnerd> I'm a Linux user, so I use XChat, but sometimes run mIRC under Wine.

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