I love how IRC was the fundamental solution to the problem, and technology improved it over the following decade or so with XMPP, and then the same technology c

I love how IRC was the fundamental solution to the problem, and technology improved it over the following decade or so with XMPP, and then the same technology conspired to extend it and extinguish it. Slack did it, Google did it, Teams never supported it in the first place... XMPP wasn't perfect but the solution to that has been walled gardens around real-time chat apps. Everybody wants to share when they're the underdog but when success hits them, they roll the red carpet back.