+<p>
+ Development of ngIRCd started back in 2001: The server has been written
+ from scratch in C, tries to follow all relevant standards, and is not
+ based on the forefather, the daemon of the IRCNet.
+</p>
+<p>
+ It is not the goal of ngIRCd to implement all the nasty behaviors of
+ the original ircd or corner-cases in the RFCs, but to implement most of
+ the useful commands and semantics that are used by existing clients.
+</p>