Hi Pete, do you recall the name of this system? I'm setting up a dedicated mailing list for this, will be available soon.
Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre Jabber Software Foundation http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.php On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Pete Chown wrote: > Van Gale wrote: > > > 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. > > We had presence in Cambridge in 1990. Also, in response to the other > comment, it was network location independent. For example I could log > on from a Computer Lab DECstation. The presence information was then > available University-wide. No one had to ask that specific workstation > for my details. However, anyone who wanted could see which DECstation I > was logged in from, what room in the CL I was sitting in, and so on. > > Funny, it didn't seem at all profound at the time, but it was years > ahead of the competition... :-) > > -- > Pete > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
