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Then something like trillian to glue them all together.
by sumtechguy 2y ago
Then something like trillian to glue them all together.
- lxgr 2y agoThere was also Meebo, which allowed you to login to all of them via a web interface (which I believe none of the messengers had natively) without installing the respective clients!
- toast0 2y agoAOL had 'AOL Quick Buddy', a Java applet client and later AIM Express that used Adobe Flash. I definitely used quick buddy from computers at my junior college (98-2000), but I don't remember using AIM express.
- lxgr 2y agoAh, I never used AIM directly. Maybe that would have worked with ICQ too, though? In any case, Meebo worked using the (back then) advanced, exciting magic of AJAX :)
- toast0 2y agoI think it did at some point, but I think it was quite a few years after ICQ was purchased before the infrastructure merged.
- sumtechguy 2y agoI used the icq web interface for a few years. It was 'ok' it was missing a lot of features but worked in a pinch.
- xp84 2y agoMeebo was sick. I remember they never made any money though as an IM webapp, and eventually fully pivoted to some kind of on-page ad toolbar that site owners would add to their sites...for some reason.
- kergonath 2y agoAdium! It really was a gem of an app. Much better than any other I’d used at the time (or that I have used since, actually).
- realfeel78 2y agoMiranda was better.
- xp84 2y agoIndeed. It was so nice to have a native app for work chat, since we could add Google Talk (XMPP) to Adium. A pox on Slack.