Pidgin: The Universal Chat Client
oh pidgin. Throughout my life (as a millennial) chat went this way:1. IRC2. IRC, Yahoo messenger, Aol Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger (mostly based on your ISP in the early days)3. All + Skype (video!! wow!) + Google messenger. *This was when pidgin was invaluable* (there was also some Duck app for macOS?)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.5. Slowly FB Messenger took precedence over even text messages as data plans became better6. A decade passes...7. The exodus off of Facebook begins and Discord takes over as a way to talk to your group of friends.