Story time: I had heard about IRChat in a podcast (NSFW) at first. I had no idea until now it was a real thing that not only existed, but still exists . This is the kind of late 90's "Hackers"-esque mysticism that surrounds tech I love. IRC is an application based protocol that uses a client/server model to chat over text. They're not necessarily forums, as the functionality is bare-bones 'type words'. Also, little ASCII people like this ヾ(•Ï‰•`)o
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