Acknowledgements

After so many years of working on mIRC, it's hard to remember all of the people who have been involved with some aspect or other of its development; some I haven't heard from in a very long time, while others I still talk to today. They've all contributed in some way, whether through bug reports, suggestions, answering questions, beta-testing, helping out on IRC channels, or creating helpful scripts, documentation, and web pages.

I receive emails every day, from people from all over the world, which are often very touching and heartfelt; their kind words are as much a tribute to all of you who have helped to bring so many people together.

Thanks to...

Tjerk Vonck who created the first #mIRC channel, the mIRC homepage, and mIRC FAQ, and has contributed to mIRC in too many ways to mention.

The mIRC Beta-testers, past and present, for their hard work in catching bugs and suggesting features.

The Helpers on IRC channels who help out new users day after day, and create helpful web pages, documentation, and scripts.

Jarkko Oikarinen, creator of IRC, and all of the ircd coders after him who have worked hard to improve IRC for all of us.

Nicolas Pioch for his short IRC primer, Ramji, Bibbly, Stimps, Mike, James G., Edward, Bunster for the queen-size futons, Peeg for the *bonk*s over the head, and Viv :)

Kevin Day, for coding and contributing various routines.

Andrzej Kowalik, for contributing his work on the toolbar icons.

M.Hunnibell, M.Overtoom, Mark "Too Slick" Hanson, Ron R., and Dan Lawrence for their technical help.

Richard "Budman" Jones, who designed and contributed the logo.

Regular expression support is provided by the PCRE library package, which is open source software, written by Philip Hazel, and copyright by the University of Cambridge, England.

JPEG support is based on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.

PNG support is based on the work of a variety of Authors and Group 42, Inc.

GIF support is based on the GIFLIB distribution by Eric S. Raymond.

Zlib support is based on the work of Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.