[Thriptic]

Also it had an enormous impact on early online gaming. IRC was the default way many clans assembled, communicated, recruited, and coordinated match play and scrimmages between each other. Channels like findscrim allowed CS teams to match with other parties of equivalent skill looking for scrimmages in real time all over the world, 24 hours per day.

[johnisgood]

Indeed, I remember when we wrote an IRC bot for organizing scrims, and it would also keep a history of the results and so forth. Fun times. I miss it. :)