mIRC reaches 150 million downloads milestone |
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A week or two ago mIRC raced past the ten million download mark on download after we started using them again as our main download site - so we thought we'd tally up our download figures to get an idea of the actual number of times mIRC has been downloaded over the last decade.
At a rate of forty to fifty thousand downloads per day from the mIRC website, it turns out that mIRC has been downloaded over 150 million times, and that's without taking account of downloads from other sites around the world. That's a pretty remarkable figure. What makes this even more eye-opening is that mIRC is still being downloaded about as much as it ever has been, although the demographics have changed somewhat - the largest number of mIRC users are still in the United States and Europe - but the fastest growth of users is in South America and Asia where a whole new generation of users seems to be discovering IRC. In many ways, the fact that mIRC is still here is a testament to the resilience of IRC as a technology and to the people, from developers to administrators to users, that keep IRC alive and well. mIRC will be twelve years old later this month, so we'd like to send out a big thanks to the IRC community for your support, trust, and enthusiasm over the years! |
