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meerita on March 1, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Last Message Sent on AIM

Truth is, there were chances to renew, rebuild, ressurrect old messaging ecosystems, like ICQ but they sucked so bad it's really hard to take chance.

adrianN on March 1, 2021 [–]

It was a golden age of instant messaging. You could talk to anybody on any network because multiprotocol clients just worked. I basically gave up on instant messaging because every company now digs deeper and deeper moats around their network.

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