I'm the opposite. Back when in my early teens, friends and I would attempt to hijack opposing groups' channels via takeovers during net-splits (and ofcourse having the same done to us). What a time to be alive.

In the early battle.net days competing clans would split and steal channels. It was tons of fun. Taught me lots about bots, proxies, simple scripting, in the process too.

Oh yeah, those were the days. Causing server splits to get your nick back that was stolen in a previous server split...

I do miss them, terribly. Lightweight, fast, brutally simple. Even with splits, it was better, and ever since IRC bouncers exist, like ZNC, they are rock solid.

I spent a few hours setting up a chat client for a reason. Slack takes all this away from me.