I got on G4's channel on GameSurge about four years ago now and that slowly led to more interaction, and other channels, and another server, and more channels on there (the server and channels were for Halo and Halo fans but kind of moved away from that and now the channels are on a different server), and some excursions to other servers. I've been consistently on for a little over three years, I have logs going back about two and a half years, and I've tried almost every IRC program that's free and runs on PCs. I don't like trying to add another server to the mix for the same reason I don't like to sign up for forums and make it a rule not to click anything when I go to Wikipedia, but maybe I'll check this out.