allows people to paste chunks of code for others to view. This is useful for situations such as asking for programming help on IRC, where it is frowned upon to paste chunks of code to the channel or to individual
CGI:IRC is a Perl/CGI program that lets you access IRC from a web browser, it is designed to be flexible and has many uses such as an IRC gateway for an IRC network, a chat-room for a website or to access IRC when stuck behind a restrictive firewall.
this search engine monitors 3,649 IRC networks, IRC channels, more active IRC users, and of course, over 5,000 pages of information on IRC networks, their services, and their servers!
brings IM (instant messaging) to IRC clients. For people who have an IRC client running all the time and don't want to run an additional MSN/AIM/whatever client. Currently supports XMPP/Jabber (including Google Talk), MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, AIM and ICQ.