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Yeah, in 1997 I was using gaim to talk to anyone I wanted on AIM, ICQ, MSN etc and it worked great. But as the olds like me fade away nobody who remembers the o
by CalRobert 2y ago
Yeah, in 1997 I was using gaim to talk to anyone I wanted on AIM, ICQ, MSN etc and it worked great. But as the olds like me fade away nobody who remembers the open internet will be around to say what we lost :-(
- boramalper 2y ago> Yeah, in 1997 I was using gaim to talk to anyone I wanted on AIM, ICQ, MSN etc and it worked great. But AIM, ICQ, MSN etc weren't open protocols either right? It was gaim/others reverse-engineering those protocols, like Pidgin [0] today. [0] https://www.pidgin.im/plugins/ https://www.pidgin.im/plugins/
- CalRobert 2y agoGood point - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSCAR_protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSCAR_protocol Though the lack of a reverse engineered Slack protocol (remember when they had an IRC bridge?) suggests companies are better at preventing this now. Edit: apparently there's https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple at least!