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        please refer to the <a href="download.php.en">Download</a>
        options.
 </p>
+<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>
+       ngIRCd is used as the daemon in real-world in-house and public IRC
+       networks and included in the package repositories of various operating
+       systems.
+</p>
 <h3 id="history">
        History
 </h3>