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The word "Soon" in the headline undermines this author's claim. Email, as claimed in the article, came about in 1987 and was widespread in 1991. There are Slack
by intopieces 11y ago
The word "Soon" in the headline undermines this author's claim. Email, as claimed in the article, came about in 1987 and was widespread in 1991. There are Slack users younger than email. If Group chat (which itself is not new -- IRC has been around much longer, though its operation is not as slick) is on the same trajectory or even twice as fast, we have plenty of time for the next technology to be developed.
- ghaff 11y ago>came about in 1987 Well, no. Email dates to about 1971. [1] In the 1987 timeframe, it was widely used within some walled gardens (my company at the time used email extensively within our own network with our proprietary software) and it was doubtless fairly widely used in various corners of the proto-Internet. My recollection is that 1991 is still pretty early to call it "widely used" among the general public--although the "endless September" was in 1993 so perhaps it was getting close. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Tomlinson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Tomlinson
- Kluny 11y agoSlack isn't exactly the first group chat client. Group chat has been a thing at least as long as email.