Company-Wide Instant Messaging with Jabberd
‘Instant messaging has quickly become part of everyday life in the last decade, with Mirabilis’s ICQ leading the way and a host of others following. However, the idea of being notified of the presence of other people when they are online and being able to communicate with them instantly dates further back. Even before ICQ came out, some versions of Unix included simple tools to poll a remote server periodically to see whether a particular user was logged in and notify the user via a small GUI application of their presence. From then on, a host of applications including talk were available for this type of communication. This worked considerably well when the internet-using population comprised university students and people who worked at government organizations and corporations. Because almost everyone logged in to the network using some kind of a host machine with a real shell on the system, people could communicate with their friends and colleagues using only the simple tools Unix always provided….’
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