![]() Indeed, even today, I think these are valid points. ![]() Why would you use such a system when IRC already existed and let you do that as well as so much more? Today, it's comparable to Twitter: The supposed "benefit" of Twitter is that it limits posts to 140 characters (yes, I know they increased this limit since then), but if you consider that an advantage, then why not just use an existing blog platform which has been around for years, like LiveJournal or Blogger, and just limit your posts to 140 characters? Why switch to something less capable because that's "all you need" if you already have something that can do more? ![]() ![]() So when instant messaging came out, I asked myself: Why bother? With ICQ, you can only send a message to one person at a time. When you wanted to speak one-on-one with somebody, it was always possible to send a private message to someone, and IRC also had the benefits of being a well-documented, open protocol, active on several different networks. I had already been active on IRC for years, and IRC had (and still has) the benefit that you could talk to people in whole rooms containing hundreds of people. When ICQ first came out in the late 1990s, more or less beginning what would later be called "instant messaging", I was skeptical at the time.
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