@superluminous IRC was fun. Discord is very similar, except that on IRC, all the channels were independent of each other and servers weren’t communities the same way they are on Discord. You’d just log on to a server, pick a username (whatever was free) and join one or more channels you knew existed. A new channel could be made by just joining it, and whoever got there first had the moderation rights to it (and could give mod rights to others).