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SMTP came before corporations offered their own email solutions. XMPP came after AIM and others had already staked out their claims on the chat space.
by falcolas 4y ago
SMTP came before corporations offered their own email solutions. XMPP came after AIM and others had already staked out their claims on the chat space.
- PaulHoule 4y agoI'd say it was the opposite. In 1990 there were numerous non-SMTP email services such as Lotus Notes, uucp-based email on Unix systems, the email system in VAX/VMS, etc. SMTP made these all interoperate and ultimately replaced them all.
- tinus_hn 4y agoLike Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange comes with its own protocol for internal communication and it is more popular than ever, and there is nothing stopping Microsoft from slipping in some ‘superior’ new proprietary protocol for mail transport between installations, apart from that it’d be a lot of work and not very useful for them.
- corrral 4y agoSMTP got a toehold before the eternal Corporate Age of the Internet practically ended open protocol development, because it was far more useful on intermittent connections, and on terminals one only used a few minutes a day. Chat didn't get super-useful until everyone had a screen in front of them or on them just about every waking hour. People used it before (I know, I was there, and I did) but it was more of a "see who's on and chat with them" than what it is now.
- dmytrish 4y agoChats have always been super-useful for a more technical crowd, IRC is still alive somehow.