[d0m]

Everything I know about computers and software is largely due to IRC. This is where I started to love hacking. So many great memories.. mIRC (A popular IRC client on windows) really got me started on programming. I learned "ifs", "for", "functions", "widget dialogs", "@window animations (and a base for game creation!)", "sockets".

I remember once I had built a IRC-server running in my mIRC, with all the robots (registering or protecting a channel) also from my mIRC. And then, on top of that, I had made a custom IRC-client with custom @windows.. We were averaging three users on my server, but oh my, that was cool at that time.

I even remember (I was very young at that time) that internet got shut down.. but I was still connected to my server. And I thought I had found a bug in Internet ;-) Obviously, I was just connected to localhost.. but the "What!!" moment was very funny.

[Hawkee]

I've been running an mIRC script site for 16 years. I wonder if you ever posted. You'd recognize my username if you did.

[d0m]

This nickname indeed rings a bell. I remember going mostly on mircscripts.org and scriptsdb.org toward the end of my time on irc. I spent most of my time on a french server and on undernet.