> The only reason Slack caught on was businesses prior to that had AIM, Skype, or Hangouts at their disposal. At least in the case of AIM, that’s not true, as

> The only reason Slack caught on was businesses prior to that had AIM, Skype, or Hangouts at their disposal. At least in the case of AIM, that’s not true, as aol switched to using slack from aim internally quite a bit before aim was decommissioned. Aim was absolute garbage for work communication and pretty much every team started using slack organically before the company bought an enterprise license. Adding chat history and search was game changing.