Instant messaging

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Remember the days of the Instant Messanger? Yahoo IM or Microsoft Messanger, ICQ, AIM and many more. In 2000, a company called Trillian tried to capitalize on the market by making a IM client that could connect to all of these instant messangers. Only problem is that Yahoo! and Microsoft didn’t want to allow this to happen. They tried to block the software. However, new patches were installed and Trillian was able to access the messangers again. Trillian (www.trillian.im) is still in existance to this day. You can download for your Mac, PC, Android, iPhone, Blackberry, and more! Funny thing, in 2004, Microsoft put out a multiple – IM software called IM2. Full Day in Tech History podcast show notes for July 1 ...

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