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

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Hi Pete, do you recall the name of this system?

I'm setting up a dedicated mailing list for this, will be available soon.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
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On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Pete Chown wrote:

> Van Gale wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> We had presence in Cambridge in 1990.  Also, in response to the other 
> comment, it was network location independent.  For example I could log 
> on from a Computer Lab DECstation.  The presence information was then 
> available University-wide.  No one had to ask that specific workstation 
> for my details.  However, anyone who wanted could see which DECstation I 
> was logged in from, what room in the CL I was sitting in, and so on.
> 
> Funny, it didn't seem at all profound at the time, but it was years 
> ahead of the competition... :-)
> 
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> Pete
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