Win. 98 came originally with a chat program, I believe either 2.0 or 2.5. It was an Internet Relay Chat I think and used a Microsoft Network or you could use other networks. MS discontinued it's support of this. My question, are there any other chat programs that use IRC that are easy to use as well as reliable? I tried a few that I had found with little or very poor results. Thank You!

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