And then on the 90s you had icq, aol, yahoo and another dozen instant messagers. Then Google played the bait and switch with jabber support for gtalk and came s

And then on the 90s you had icq, aol, yahoo and another dozen instant messagers. Then Google played the bait and switch with jabber support for gtalk and came social networks and everyone having a sms phone in their pockets and all that became irrelevant... Did we just defined the instant messager life cycle in 10yrs?