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To be fair -- the hat tip should probably go to Path.

• kzhahou 11y ago
  No. Slack has innovated literally every advancement in chat for the last 20 years.
  • onedev 11y ago
    Agreed. They don't get enough credit to be honest.
  • ar7hur 11y ago
    HipChat?
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  • Shank 11y ago
    That's not the right use of literally, and at best, is a good use of hyperbole. 20 years is a long time. 20 years ago, SMS wasn't a thing, and IRC and internet chatrooms were more popular. As time goes on, you have things like MSN, Yahoo! Messenger, etc. Emoji were invented after 20 years ago.
    • kzhahou 11y ago
      Oh, I know what literally means, my friend :-) But your reply literally made my head explode.
    • MichaelGG 11y ago
      SMS was a thing 20 years ago. Wiki says first SMS message was sent in 1992, and development went far back (beyond IRC).
  • ampersandy 11y ago
    I can tell that you're trying to be sarcastic, but I've heard enough good things about Slack that it was hard to catch. If you're not being sarcastic... well, I think Shank summed it up pretty well.
    • kzhahou 11y ago
      Lookit, I love Slack. Used it extensively in a huge team. But I do get tired of the constant thing around HN whenever a company releases some new feature, people immediately post a "Well, credit should really go to XYZ who did it first". Sometimes the other company did launch a similar feature first, sometimes the features aren't that similar, and more often than not, everyone is copying from everyone. (and that's ok)