[JDEV] OT: AOL Patents IM (Patent creates IM wrinkle )

[Andrew J. Capule]

I vaguely remember Powwow. I don't remember if it came out
before ICQ for sure tho. The main things I remember from Powwow
are:

Chats similar to "talk" in unix where you can see as they type.
Sound effects (a big laugh when someone types "lol") LOL
www surfing whatever your buddy was surfing
I think it had IRC-style multiple chats too, but I'm not
positive.

That's all that comes to mind right now.


--- Van Gale <vangale at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 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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