mirc

There are a lot of custom versions of mIRC online with crazy color themes and what not.

And yet, if you looked at the occasional charity sessions the author held, it appears mIrc was pulling in $40K-$50K per month.

I think he meant mIRC (the shareware software) is the official IRC client of the military.

I used to scan the users at IRC channels for BO (my mirc client had a plugin that did it automatically).

First thing I did, was mIRC-script most of it copied from other scripts and retrofitted.

IRC formatting codes (not standard, but popularized by mIRC and thus implemented by most clients) are also toggles instead of begin-end pairs, so they allow this.

The name of a popular Windows client is mIRC.

I also moved on to mIRC to get mainly anime and music videos.

I remember patching it and then scripting mirc to seek out the handle of the person who sent it via the source IP.

- my Mom is 67 and has been on IRC for 20+ years using mIRC for most of those.

I scripted mIRC to WinNuke everyone on join in all channels.

I used to use mIRC a lot, fully scriptable/customizable.

WikiLeaks called their leak "mIRC logs," which is where this trope came from.

The "why nobody pays for" line reminds me that at one point, a comedy site announced "first person pays for mIrc IRC client!" because really, who would pay for that program?

IRC is used pretty extensively by the military for communications (generally just called "mIRC", since people associate it so strongly with the official military client), and there were a bunch of different channels on different networks to discuss operations in realtime.