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On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:19:07 +0100 Colin S. Miller wrote:
> Juanma Barranquero wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 09:25, Xah <xahlee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> I'm actually don't have solid historical facts for the above points as
>>> i liked... but anyway i just want to write instead of like doing 10
>>> years of research and post 1 article and got overflooded.
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>> Then you're bound to make mistakes like this one:
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>>> For exampl,
>>> when Instant Messaging just began in 1999, by such as AOL.
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>> Instant Messaging started in 1996, with ICQ. AOL didn't buy it until 1998.
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> and Unix "talk" was around in 1993 (and probably well before then).
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According to wikipedia: IRC: '88, `talk': 70s
David
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