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I feel like this article would call MySpace the king circa 1990. Real Team Chat clients are in their infancy. Microsoft is still baking Teams. Slack still has b

I feel like this article would call MySpace the king circa 1990. Real Team Chat clients are in their infancy. Microsoft is still baking Teams. Slack still has bug issues. Google can't decide on a product. Discord is starting to really start to get footing in gaming circles. Slack maybe has a head start, but they haven't won anything.

jessaustin 8y ago
http was created in 1991. MySpace came later.
- gregmac 8y ago
  August 1, 2003, to be exact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace
  - astrodust 8y ago
    In the beginning Tim created The Protocol and The Web. And The Web was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of The Protocol. And the NCSA moved upon the face of the code. And Andreessen said "Let there be a GUI" and there was a graphical browser. And Filo and Yang saw this graphical browser and created order from chaos...
ng12 8y ago
> Real Team Chat clients are in their infancy Is there any real innovation over IRC? Beyond that, I remember using Campfire almost five years ago and it had pretty close feature parity with Slack today. This seems like a revolution in usability and branding if anything.
- mprev 8y ago
  IRC lacks history, unless you want to run a proxy some place. With IRC, you either run your own server or trust a server run by someone with whom you probably have no commercial relationship. IRC clients mostly suck, for the purposes of people who are not already IRC aficionados. File transfers are, afaicr, not ideal with IRC. Bottom line is, IRC doesn’t just work in the way most people need. Sure, it’s branding and usability but they’re hugely important.