I vaguely remember Powwow. I don't remember if it came out before ICQ for sure tho. The main things I remember from Powwow are:
Chats similar to "talk" in unix where you can see as they type. Sound effects (a big laugh when someone types "lol") LOL www surfing whatever your buddy was surfing I think it had IRC-style multiple chats too, but I'm not positive. That's all that comes to mind right now. --- Van Gale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, I must be going senile, cause I'm clearly wrong about ICQ > being > available in 1990 :) > > As for IRC and VAX phone, yes they're clearly earlier examples > of chatting, > but I think it's stretching it to say they had presence. I > even wrote a VAX > phone clone for SCO Xenix in 1988 (and I know it was then > because I checked > my resumé hah). > > I do remember another system that was out slightly before ICQ > called Powwow > (or close to that), but I don't remember what features it had. > > Van Gale > > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
