We cover five rooms: Messaging Now, Protocols & Tech, Chat History, Privacy & Security, and Culture. The writing aims to be knowledgeable and warm — never a dry spec-sheet, never breathless. Where there's code or a protocol, we set it in monospace and try to get the details right.
The Project — a tribute
The original mIRGGI was the first IRC client built for the Symbian S60 third-edition platform, running across a wide spread of Nokia hardware — the N73, N80, N95, E60, E70 and more — with desktop builds for Linux and Windows too. In an era when mobile communication mostly meant SMS, it let you drop into a live IRC channel from your pocket, one T9 tap at a time.
Its philosophy was ruthless economy: give the user IRC, nothing else, waste nothing. A 10,000-line scrollback per window, UTF-8 decoding, an ident daemon, numpad window-switching — considered choices for a device with a small screen and a numeric keypad. You can read the full story in How Phones Chatted on IRC Before Apps.
This blog keeps the name as a nod to that era — an admirer carrying the torch.
To be clear: this site isn't the original software, and it isn't affiliated with it. It's a tribute. We borrow the name out of affection for the keypad-IRC era and the little client that made mobile chat feel possible years before the app store existed.
How we work
Independent, ad-light, and reader-first. A small strip of friends of the channel helps keep the guide free to read — no trackers, no takeovers. Everything we publish ships as plain, fast, self-contained pages. If we get something wrong, tell us and we'll fix it.