News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app. Parent comment

Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by floopidydoopidy on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @02:57AM (#12545976)
I feel like ICQ 98 was the pinnacle of chat applications. Floating contacts and email style messages... brilliance.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by the_other on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @04:13AM (#12546297)
The "find random chat partner" feature was so addictive!
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by wingerlang on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @03:34AM (#12546112)
> email style messages

Care to elaborate? I'm having trouble picturing what you mean. Long form with styling?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by ashark on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @04:04PM (#12551741)
Strongly agree. It's still unsurpassed. And it worked well on systems with 64mb of RAM (maybe even less) without stomping all over the rest of the programs you were running. Seems like no-one can even "Hello World" a desktop app these days without a 100mb download and requiring several hundred MB of memory all to itself.
[ Parent | on HN ]