mIRC was probably as easy as slack. but you didn't have to force everyone to use mIRC. Same for aim, icq... greedy killed all of those, not the ability to crea

mIRC was probably as easy as slack. but you didn't have to force everyone to use mIRC. Same for aim, icq... greedy killed all of those, not the ability to create better open clients. Namely msn and gtalk (not the jabber offering, which was a joke attempt of making federated icq for corporations, enterprisey java codebase and all)