[throwaway29303]

That's a cool project, OP.

I'd like to share other historic projects which I had a hard time searching for and they seem to be gone from most search engines (at the time I searched for them anyway):

  https://archives.darenet.org/ (not available)

  https://arsiv.behroozwolf.net/index.php (it seems to be working)

Those are software repositories for a lot of IRC related projects from clients to servers and bots, etc.

Cheers.