MIRC

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mIRC is a shareware Internet Relay Chat client for Windows, created in 1995 and developed by Khaled Mardam-Bey. Although it is a fully functional chat utility, its integrated scripting language makes it extensible and versatile.

mIRC is very popular, having been downloaded almost nine million times from CNET's download.com service as of June 2007[1]. Nielsen Net Rankings also ranked mIRC among the top 10 most popular Internet applications in 2003. Because of its popularity, some users mistakenly conflate the mIRC client with the IRC protocol, thinking they are connecting to a "mIRC server" or joining a "mIRC channel"[citation needed].

It is unknown if the "m" in mIRC stands for anything—Khaled's personal FAQ explains that "it quite possibly stands for 'moo', or perhaps even MU."[2]