Candidates for Mozilla's IRC Successor
I have full faith that, if I had left a computer running, in the corner of my home, with an IRC client open, it would have been able to maintain a connection to Freenode (not continuously, but just work) for fifteen or more years.<p>Personally I don&#x27;t think IRC will ever be replaced. Well, it will, but it&#x27;ll happen when my generation dies and gets fully replaced with the New Shiny.<p>I _hope_ that some sort of real, proper standard, that doesn&#x27;t endlessly reinvent itself, that isn&#x27;t subject to some for-profit bollocks, that on a very basic level, has like, a standard, has _clients_ (not just one wanky proprietary web frontend) that just sits and gets the job done like TCP, comes out of all of this.<p>Meanwhile, I&#x27;m fairly sure IRC will still be there in another fifteen.<p>Hell, at this point, IRC has been a constant in my life for longer than everything other than family. It actually feels like a friend. A portal to another quirky world, just as it did all those years ago.<p>I think it&#x27;s almost two decades now since I first logged in. My my. The years are short, indeed.