And XMPP (1999).
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beanlink@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Usenet/IRC/BBS sitting in the background like: Am I a joke to you?
poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
beanlink@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh Jabber the true RCS of the day.
r00ty@kbin.life 2 months ago
IRC was "kinda" federated. You needed to convince a server already in the network to accept your server. But in the early days requirements were quite low.
BBS was not really federated (except Fidonet I guess).
Usenet, I guess it kinda was. But only ISPs were really running NNTP servers. Only they and unis really had the resources to too.