A particular subset of the XMPP story I want to share is that back in the mid-00's, the XMPP folks were trying to make it the protocol of the real-time web. I t

A particular subset of the XMPP story I want to share is that back in the mid-00's, the XMPP folks were trying to make it the protocol of the real-time web. I think that was a laudable goal. One thing they particularly feared was for the web to become HTTP-only, with all the overhead that entails. How prescient.