MSN could do the same with Yahoo Messenger users, for a while at least.
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Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 months agoRemember when icq could message aim users though? That was so badass.
Scrollone@feddit.it 3 months ago
umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
remember trillian? or pidgin was it called? you could message every service.
that was badass.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Pidgin still seems to active lol
keep.imfreedom.org/pidgin/
Wonder who still uses it.
Orbituary@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Both. Trillian was Mac only, Pidgin was multi platform but started on Linux. Pidgin had every protocol. I still keep my .purple config folder and logs after over a decade. Not like I’ll ever read the logs again, though.
i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
I remember having Trillian on Windows way back when.
I’ll have you know I did go back and read my logs from like 2008. I think I cringed so hard I never recovered. You might have saved yourself by not looking at yours!
dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Trillian was not Mac only. I’ve never owned a Mac and used Trillian almost exclusively from 2002 until roughly 2009?? I can’t remember when the transition from IM to texting happened for me, but it was around then. When I was running Linux at home I would use Gaim, which was developed by a friend of the main Trillian guy.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Trillian ran on Windows but was closed source. Pidgin is foss.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I actually forgot all about that, but yes I did use Trillian at one point. Can you imagine big tech companies letting you use third party apps that didn’t lock you into their service or ad stream these days?