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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.

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[–] [email protected] 249 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (17 children)

Microsoft pivoted to Skype. Saved you a click and reading about 1000 words.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 months ago (15 children)

Which Microsoft then shit all over (to be fair, Skype started that process even before MS bought them) and eventually renamed it to Microsoft Teams.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (8 children)

And for a while, there was also Skype for Business (formerly Lync (formerly Communicator)).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Still remember setting up lync 2013 for our company. It was one of the funner projects I remember doing. I was not as thrilled about setting up SharePoint 2013....

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