Since the beginning of time, people have been looking for various ways to easily communicate over great lengths of distance.
When we fast-forward to our modern ages, we find the Internet. One of the most popular ways that enables you to instantly talk with people from across the world is mIRC.
mIRC is a platform that uses the Internet Relay Chat system. Through it, you instantly connect to worldwide servers and channels, and start talking to friends or even strangers.
It's interesting that installation can be either normally done, or you can choose a portable version if you want to store mIRC on an external device.
The interface is very friendly, and anyone can easily navigate through mIRC.
First you have to select a nickname, an alternative (in case your nickname is already taken), an optional name and e-mail, and select the server you wish to connect to.
After you successfully connect to a server (it may require several attempts), you can join a channel (either a predefined one from the Favorites window, or a new one), and start chatting with people.
If you are new to this environment, you will see there are some tips and tricks you can use. For example, you can manually write commands in the server window to reveal details of a user, find out how many people are on a channel, set a status, change nickname, and many others. Don't hesitate to look over the help file or IRC forums.
In addition, mIRC is completely customizable, and it runs on low memory resources. Also, the price of the full version makes mIRC very accessible.
All in all, if you want to spend time talking to some unknown people from all over the world, maybe learn a new language and share experiences, mIRC is the first place you can start. Just make sure you don't completely lose yourself in it because it's highly addictive.

Limitations:
· 30-day trial
· Nag screen

What's New in This Release:
· Portable support has been improved for when mIRC is used on more than one computer through file hosting services like dropbox.
· A Treebar option has been added that allows you to choose a different font using the right-click popup menu.
· The editbox now beeps at most ten times when the maximum message length is reached and respects the "enable sounds" option in the sounds dialog.
· The log view window now allows you to set the default ontop state through the system menu as well as save the window position.
· The SSL warning dialog has been improved and now includes SHA1 fingerprint and Bubble-babble text.
· Incremental search has been added to listboxes that matches against start of text in listbox lines.
· The Control+Break key issue that caused it to stick in some situations should now be resolved.
· A display scrolling bug that occurred in windows that contained a large numbers of lines has been fixed.
· A 10053 connection issue has been fixed that occurred when connecting to a server t...