Comment by wraptile
3 years ago
IRC used to be indexed by Google and such though. Also because irc clients didn't have rich media support a lot of knowledge would make it outside of IRC like code snippets or microblogs that would eventually get indexed.
Google didn't "Index IRC". Source: have been on IRC before Google was a thing.
What Google indexed was people's logger bots putting channel logs on the world wide web.
Many channels had official logs