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.

  • radicalautonomy@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I think that’s what the college kids were playing with when I was in high school.

    Started college in 1995, and I indeed did have ICQ before too long. Still remember my number (6725571).

    You probably had all three installed on your computer and probably all running at once.

    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.

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      1 month ago

      I haven’t thought of those apps for years, I used Pidgin! I had to look up the program name.