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People seem to have forgotten that AIM (and Google Talk) were not asynchronous. If you wanted to IM someone they had to be online at the same time you were. Nei
by naravara 3y ago
People seem to have forgotten that AIM (and Google Talk) were not asynchronous. If you wanted to IM someone they had to be online at the same time you were. Neither of these protocols was particularly good at syncing across devices and working with the modern expectation that people be able to check in and check out from any device at any time.
They were always destined for being retired once smartphones became a thing.
- toast0 3y agoAIM was online only for a long time, but it developed offline messaging eventually (my memory is fuzzy, but I think this happened after ICQ was integrated; ICQ had offline messaging for as long as I used it and I had a 6-digit account) Indeed, there wasn't synchronization between devices, although there are many ways that could have been handled.