• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    100 different messaging programs/interfaces

    It’s like four or five. We did this back in the late 90s. Some people used AIM. Some used Yahoo Messenger. Some used ICQ. And some used MSN. We survived.

    It was such a common thing that multi-protocol clients like Trillian were popular.