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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 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (17 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 weeks 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] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I have use teams at work and I hate it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Slack is okay. Teams is full rubbish. I can’t disagree with you. Fuck teams.

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