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