The bottom of the article links to the history (individual features) of other IM programs from that era as well like ICQ and Yahoo Messenger.

  • @ShunkW
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    62 hours ago

    I used that until they pay walled it. Then I found Pidgen I believe it was called. It was open source and could connect to pretty much every messenger and IRC and stuff. Then my friend just switched to texting lol

    • JohnEdwa
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      31 hour ago

      Pidgin. Before that it was called Gaim.
      It still works, as there are plugins to integrate it with almost everything.

      • @ShunkW
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        155 minutes ago

        I knew it wasn’t spelled exactly like the bird lol. But yeah I used that shit for years. I don’t really have a use for it anymore or I’d probably still be using it