First, money showed up on the Internet. Second, if you don't stand to make a ton of it, you can keep using email, IRC, DNS... No need to launch something else.
Although it's not like new IRC daemons are not written, or new irc networks are not started. It's not dead, it's slowly evolving.
Although it's not like new IRC daemons are not written, or new irc networks are not started. It's not dead, it's slowly evolving.