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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 49 points 1 month ago (4 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 1 month ago (1 children)

I have use teams at work and I hate it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm so old that I used Skype when it had a red logo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

And the video chats were choppy and black and white and with delayed audio. Those were the days...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Actually, to Lync first. Then Teams. All three suck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Skype was never meant to replace MSN, even back then everyone complained about it and we talked on teamspeak while playing games.