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> What was exciting about the XMPP protocol itself? Were people back then just excited to be in the presence of vast amounts of XML? It may sound hard to belie
by jkarneges 12y ago
> What was exciting about the XMPP protocol itself? Were people back then just excited to be in the presence of vast amounts of XML?
It may sound hard to believe, but yes that was part of it. XML's popularity in the year 2000 was similar to JSON's popularity today.
Even more importantly, though, XMPP provides structured datagram exchange between entities using email-style (user@domain) addressing. This notion is still exciting today.