Pidgin: The Universal Chat Client
oh pidgin. Throughout my life (as a millennial) chat went this way:<p>1. IRC<p>2. IRC, Yahoo messenger, Aol Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger (mostly based on your ISP in the early days)<p>3. All + Skype (video!! wow!) + Google messenger. *This was when pidgin was invaluable* (there was also some Duck app for macOS?)<p>4. Skype started charging and since everyone was on Facebook, everyone moved to Facebook messenger. Text messages also became free, so for instant comms you just texted people.<p>5. Slowly FB Messenger took precedence over even text messages as data plans became better<p>6. A decade passes...<p>7. The exodus off of Facebook begins and Discord takes over as a way to talk to your group of friends.