I used to be hooked on chat. It started with an archaic program called NTalk (does anyone remember NTalk???) on the old Unix servers at the university. Then I discovered the cutesy ICQ, with that annoying message alert that sounded like a lemming going “uh-oh!”

And then I discovered mIRC.
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Seen on balloons at a funeral: “Condolences! For your loss!”

 NGWE?