[JDEV] OT: AOL Patents IM (Patent creates IM wrinkle )
Van Gale
vangale at fastmail.fm
Wed Dec 18 23:32:41 CST 2002
Ok, I must be going senile, cause I'm clearly wrong about ICQ being
available in 1990 :)
As for IRC and VAX phone, yes they're clearly earlier examples of chatting,
but I think it's stretching it to say they had presence. I even wrote a VAX
phone clone for SCO Xenix in 1988 (and I know it was then because I checked
my resumé hah).
I do remember another system that was out slightly before ICQ called Powwow
(or close to that), but I don't remember what features it had.
Van Gale
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