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Cory Doctorow is a treasure. One of the biggest shames for the internet over the past decade has been users flocking to proprietary corporate platform after proprietary corporate platform while they all ultimately meet the same fate in the end. At least this time around people are choosing FOSS non-profit alternatives in higher numbers.
Past two decades, you mean? (I'm still mad about the crowd choosing MSN Messenger over open protocol chat programs back in '00)
Eh, there were some floating around. XMPP was fairly common, as LiveJournal, Google, Facebook, Skype, AOL, Xfire, and lord knows what else all had varying degrees of support for it.
Take a look at Matrix.