The bottom of the article links to the history (individual features) of other IM programs from that era as well like ICQ and Yahoo Messenger.

  • radicalautonomy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    I think that’s what the college kids were playing with when I was in high school.

    Started college in 1995, and I indeed did have ICQ before too long. Still remember my number (6725571).

    You probably had all three installed on your computer and probably all running at once.

    I remember using a program called Trillian (which is still around!) in the late 90s/early 00s. It allowed you to connect multiple IM accounts in one app. It was sorta finicky, but it got the job done.

      • Tin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        8 hours ago

        I still use Pidgin, because I still have some old work related contacts who use Skype, and I’d much rather use Pidgin than keep Skype around. It will do discord too but it’s a bit kludgey.

        • XaiwahBlue@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          7 hours ago

          It will do discord? That’s amazing, I will have to look back into it. Discord has been awful for a while, but getting people to switch is impossible. 😩