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mIRC

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

mIRC is very popular, having been downloaded over eight and a half million times from CNET’s download.com service as of October 2006[citation needed]. 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.”

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.”

PHP

PHP (PHP:Hypertext Preprocessor) is a reflective programming language originally designed for producing dynamic Web pages. PHP is used mainly in server-side scripting, but can be used from a command line interface or in standalone graphical applications. Textual User Interfaces can also be created using ncurses.

The sole implementation is produced by “The PHP Group” and released under the PHP License. It is considered to be free software by the Free Software Foundation. This implementation serves to define a de facto standard for PHP, as there is no formal specification.

Source: en.wikipedia.org