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Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:

Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:

Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> wrote:

On 23.11.25 16:00, Frank Slootweg wrote:

In the snipped part, I pointed to Internet Standards such as e-mail,
web, etc.. I take it you don't care about such matters? :-(

Instant messengers are all proprietary.

Currently, yes. Wasn't always the case. Back in the day Jabber (now XMPP - >> stupid name) was great.

Yes, we used Jabber for 'chat' between the engineers in our part of
our company. Both within the office and between work-at-home engineers.
(Yes, we already (partially) worked at home in the later 90s. I'm still somewhat amused about all the hoopla about it in the recent/current
time.)

We also used some other (incompatible?) chat client/system earlier or later, but can't remember the name of that one.

Slack is the preferred method for technical people nowadays. I don't get
the attraction.

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On 2025-11-24 12:21, Frank Slootweg wrote:

Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:

Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> wrote:

On 23.11.25 16:00, Frank Slootweg wrote:

In the snipped part, I pointed to Internet Standards such as e-mail,
web, etc.. I take it you don't care about such matters? :-(

Instant messengers are all proprietary.

Currently, yes. Wasn't always the case. Back in the day Jabber (now XMPP - >> stupid name) was great.

Yes, we used Jabber for 'chat' between the engineers in our part of
our company. Both within the office and between work-at-home engineers.
(Yes, we already (partially) worked at home in the later 90s. I'm still somewhat amused about all the hoopla about it in the recent/current
time.)

We also used some other (incompatible?) chat client/system earlier or later, but can't remember the name of that one.

Those years I did not have a permanent connection to internet, so I
could not use such things.

And when I got a mobile maybe on 1998 or 99 it only could do SMS, I think.
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