And what was the state of Linux when proprietary instant messaging apps were popular?

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[–] 6 points 3 years ago

AOL actually made a native Linux implementation of AIM, but they stopped updating it, so it got pretty out of date. I mostly used Gaim/Pidgin to connect to AIM/Yahoo/MSN and later on Google Talk through XMPP.

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