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Re:HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer by Hello71 on Thursday March 21, 2013 @02:04PM (#5417446)
IRC has no chat history or unauthenticated access, apparently.
Re:HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer by shurcooL on Thursday March 21, 2013 @02:35PM (#5417707)
My friend was working on a web client for IRC [1] that provides a persistent connection (and hence chat history). I'm not sure if he's gonna finish it though.

[1] https://github.com/pavben/WebIRC