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bluedino on March 4, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Source: Microsoft mulled an $8B bid for Slack, wil...

It's just a protocol. Like HTTP, FTP...

It's not a client. It's not one companies servers. It's not anything like AOL IM, ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, PowWow...

pmlnr on March 4, 2016 [–]

And that is exactly why it's still alive.

lmm on March 7, 2016 | [–]

AIM/ICQ is still alive. Yahoo! Messenger is still alive. MSN Messenger has a migration path to Skype. Doesn't seem like that distinction makes a lot of difference.

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