Subj : Re: Local vs Network message boards
To   : Nightfox
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Wed May 08 2024 07:36:00

-=> Nightfox wrote to niter3 <=-


 Ni> I miss ICQ too.  I first started to use ICQ in late 1995 or 1996, and
 Ni> back then, I liked that it had a little form you could fill out with
 Ni> some information about yourself and it could find a random person for
 Ni> you to chat with.  I made some friends online that way..  And I also
 Ni> miss Yahoo Messenger and MSN Messenger - I had many of my in-person
 Ni> friends and people I had met on those.  I thought they were a very
 Ni> convenient way to keep in touch with people.

TRILLIAN.

It's a multi-platform chat program, handled all of the commercial
platforms, Jabber, oddball platforms like SILC, and even IRC. Loved
having that open on my desktop, wondered what the infosec people thought
when they saw all of the outbound ports.

Early on, I worked at a company that had an AIM proxy - it could even
connect clients when the internet was down. We used AIM internally.

Later, the company bought a stake in Skype and we went all-in with it.



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