Last Updated on 2016-06-16 , 6:56 pm
Before Facebook, Twitter, MSN Messenger and heck, before ICQ, there was mIRC. Simple, effective and extendable, mIRC was where teens from all over the world gathered to chat and share stuff back when the Internet began its breakthrough into our lives. Shed a tear with me as we look at some things we used to do on mIRC that today’s teens will never understand.
Real time mass chatting
Before the days of Whatsapp, people used to chat en masse on mIRC. Anyone could create a chat channel and start chatting, and there were huge chatrooms where people from all over the world chatted with each other. There were very few barriers, and everyone was open to talking to anyone.
Searching for and downloading stuff
Not only do we chat on mIRC, we also downloaded our MP3s there. People hosted bots that shared songs with each other – all we had to do was input a search command, and a bot would respond with a link for us to copy and paste; and start our download.
Picking up girls/guys
Before the likes of Tinder, people met each other online through mIRC. Countless people chatted up each other and arranged for meetups and gatherings long before online forums became the rage, and it was where teenagers flirted with each other through choice words instead of duck faces and naked selfies.
mIRC trivia channels
Trivia bots would ask trivia questions at regular intervals, and the person who answers first would get points. The bot also automatically kept a points tally for each user, and I have lost count of the hours that I used to spend answering trivia and chatting with other like-minded geeks.
Customisable emotes
Since mIRC was all pure text, people had to get creative back in the day. A /me command would enable you to type in a string of words in a different colour that expressed an action, so people could get totally creative with their perceived actions – provided they were good with words. And we wonder why students nowadays aren’t creative and don’t have good language…
ASCII art
You can’t possibly display pictures in mIRC since it’s all text, right? Wrong. By lining up and aligning different characters from the keyboard, people create ASCII art that ranged from the simple to the sophisticated, and were the true pioneers of graphic emotes and memes.
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