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Originally Posted by id10t

I started the instant messenger trend at work 23 years ago with ICQ....

TBH Teams works well, the ability to quick call, run it thru a browser, share docs/files, etc. all make it work well. Even better is if your IT group allows outside-of-your-enterprise contacts

LOL! Yep, 1999, we had Internet access, and about 100 people all working together providing technical support. Most of us had something like Trillian and was using it to access AIM, Yahoo IM, and ICQ. A smaller subset was also using MiRC on a server at work via CLI. As the years have progressed and I've moved from place to place, the amount of access to the 'Net has changed which eventually cut off all of those external clients. It took a bit for companies to start providing their own internal chats, but as long as I've been where I am now, we've always had at least 3 different chat clients (which have changed over the past 12 years). Our external access is very limited. Most of the conferencing apps (gotomeeting, webex, etc...) were very limited before covid. Now, we have a little more access (different roles have more or less access), but as a company we've adopted Zoom which is very surprising to me considering the whole China/non-trusted element.