![]() Â Out of the gates of commercialization the big hit was ICQ. ![]() However once the internet opened up, companies were free to invent their own protocols, and let the users choose if they wanted something more rich than a simple text based protocol, it may seem obvious today, but users wanted to do things like share files, and more importantly be able to minimize the program and only get an alert if someone was actually messaging them. Â Back before the commercialization of the internet, if you wanted to do real-time conversations you used IRC, and before then it was just talk/ytalk on any UNIX host. ![]() Â And it’s really random, some things become wildly popular, while others crash and burn so hard that almost all existence of it happening is destroyed. Microsoft has had a long tradition of wanting to be cool and edgy, and copying what is popular to make themselves a metwo company.
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