didnt know that people can collaborate in IRC on one document and see real time changes going into a shared piece. The wave bots had also had the ability to collaborate, See http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/telstar/2010/01/14/irm10-help-me... of a wave bot helping in a realtime environment to facilitate refrerences for research projects...... I think people that think wave was just a replacement for email, irc twitter are kinda missing the point, and google are largely to blame because that is the way wave was "marketed"[sic]
One can think of the entire IRC history as a kind of collaborative information resource. (A limited append-only doc.) And yes, there are programming groups who use the history in exactly this way. Some of them post to HN.
IRC users see this.