Smartphones came with their own, new issues: synchronization, and resource (battery and bandwidth) limitations. Unfortunately none of the multi-protocol messengers ever had a native support to it: it only worked if a local instance of Skype was running.Ī few years later iPhone appeared and it ate the consumer world not long before that, BlackBerry did the same to the business. Skype was on a good way to eliminate everything else. It was fast, p2p, encrypted, ran on every platform, supported more or less everything people needed, including multiple instances for multiple accounts. With the help of these multi-protocol miracles it wasn't an issues when newcomers like Facebook or Google released their messaging functionality: both were built in top of XMPP 8, an open standard for instant messaging, and they were both supported out of the box in those programs.Īround this time came Skype and it solved all the video call problems with ease. I used Trillian 6 for many years, followed by Pidgin 7 once I switched to linux. The multiplication of messengers had one useful effect though: people who got fed up running multiple clients for the same purpose - to message people - came up with the idea if multi-protocol applications. It was inferior, but because it was built in to Windows, it took all the ICQ users away. 4Īround this time, Windows included an instant messenger in their operating systems: MSN Messenger 5, later renamed to Windows Live Messenger. Users also got the option of sending contact requests to other users. Thanks to the new protocol, ICQ learned how to call phones, and send SMS and pager messages. The sixth protocol version appeared in ICQ 2000b and faced a complete rework. I loved it's notifications sound - I have it as notification sound on my smartphone and it usually results in very confused expressions from people who haven't heard the little 'ah-oooh' for a decade -, it's capability of sending and receiving files, the way you could search for people based on location, interest tags, etc. For me, it all started with various IRC 1 rooms, using mIRC 2, later extended with ICQ 3 in 1998. IMīefore the dawn of the always online era (pre 2007) the world of instant messengers was completely different.
I made changes to my article according to these finds. This is due to the fact that I wrote about XMP without spending enough time exploring what it's really capable of, for which I'm sorry. Note: I have updated some parts of this entry.
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