Haha, nice. My journey was: 1. ICQ, because my gamer friends used it. 2. Added IRC, while it felt already outdated, somehow a bunch of my Japan-nerd friends

Haha, nice. My journey was: 1. ICQ, because my gamer friends used it. 2. Added IRC, while it felt already outdated, somehow a bunch of my Japan-nerd friends used it. 3. Added AIM, YIM, MSN, because girls and my parents used them. 4. Switched to Trillian, because it wasn't managable otherwise. 5. Everyone moved to Facebook Messenger. 6. Everyone moved to WhatsApp 7. Now and then some friends switch to Signal, Telegram, or another "secure," alternative to WhatsApp. 8. Started working remote and everything is Slack and Zoom. 9. Dabbled in Web3/crypto and everything is Discord