Engineers brought slack into companies because it was like IRC but non-tech folk could use it. Teams didn't exist when slack became "cool". It was Lync or Skyp

Engineers brought slack into companies because it was like IRC but non-tech folk could use it. Teams didn't exist when slack became "cool". It was Lync or Skype for Business, or something along those lines. The timeline and the rebranding is a bit blurry, but they were truly awful compared to Slack. Slack stopped being cool (for me) when they killed the IRC bridge. After that it became just another enterprise tool that was doomed to be hated.