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.

  • ShunkW@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    25 days ago

    I used that until they pay walled it. Then I found Pidgen I believe it was called. It was open source and could connect to pretty much every messenger and IRC and stuff. Then my friend just switched to texting lol

    • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      13·
      25 days ago

      Pidgin. Before that it was called Gaim.
      It still works, as there are plugins to integrate it with almost everything.

      • ShunkW@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        25 days ago

        I knew it wasn’t spelled exactly like the bird lol. But yeah I used that shit for years. I don’t really have a use for it anymore or I’d probably still be using it

        • toynbee@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          24 days ago

          I used it all the way up until Google broke compatibility with it, then continued using it with a third party plug-in until that stopped being maintained.

          Now I prefer Signal over Chat.

        • WildPalmTree@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          23 days ago

          “A pidgin /ˈpɪdʒɪn/, or pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups of people that do not have a language in common: typically, its vocabulary and grammar are limited and often drawn from several languages.”