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While there are many good chat programs out there, my personal favorite is mIRC.

I started chatting in late 1996.  I had my computer for about a year before that.  I had used my computer for my businesses and of course, for playing games, but I had never been interested in going on the internet until that time. 

To make a long story short......I LOVED IT! 

I started out on Dalnet and cruised on to Undernet.  There I happened on a channel called #new2mIRC.  It was a very helpful channel and they taught me the mIRC program as well as some things about my computer.  Within 3 months I was asked to be an OP.  An honor that I was very happy to accept.  Since that time I have op-ed on about 8 other channels. 

Several people in that time have decided to register their own channels.   Myself and Charlie_D being among them.  Some folks form a channel for help with specific things.  Others form a channel for help in general.  And still others form a channel for the pure enjoyment of chatting. Charlie_D and I wanted a chat channel.  We set up the rules for our channel and registered it.  To our great pleasure we were given X in October of 1998.  Of all the channels that are formed some survived and others fell by the wayside.  But it is all great fun while it lasts. 
 

Here is a list of some of the channels that have spawned and continued to
survive. You can join in the chat fun by installing the mIRC program from
www.mirc.co.uk or by getting onto the Undernet via your internet browser.