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.
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.
Started college in 1995, and I indeed did have ICQ before too long. Still remember my number (6725571).
I remember using a program called Trillian (which is still around!) in the late 90s/early 00s. It allowed you to connect multiple IM accounts in one app. It was sorta finicky, but it got the job done.
I haven’t thought of those apps for years, I used Pidgin! I had to look up the program name.
Pidgin was dope
Pidgin is still around too afaik.
I still use Pidgin, because I still have some old work related contacts who use Skype, and I’d much rather use Pidgin than keep Skype around. It will do discord too but it’s a bit kludgey.
It will do discord? That’s amazing, I will have to look back into it. Discord has been awful for a while, but getting people to switch is impossible. 😩
It will! There’s a plugin: https://github.com/EionRobb/purple-discord
Blast from the freaking past! Wow, you just unlocked some memories for me.
Emesene and pidgin were great! :)
Trillian was amazing, until it was overtaken by malware. At least that’s what my antivirus at the time said. Also, proprietary, so I passed on it after finding pidgin.