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Re:Google Talk Is Being Discontinued by pvg on Friday March 24, 2017 @05:45PM (#13952487)
Talk didn't have its own client outside of the Gmail panel when it launched.

Didn't it? I think it had a client from the get go

https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Google_Talk_released_in_beta_fo...

Re:Google Talk Is Being Discontinued by WorldMaker on Friday March 24, 2017 @06:06PM (#13952620)
Interesting, I seem to recall an entirely different order of release. Blame it on personal bias (was already using XMPP at the time of Talk's release) and/or aging memory, I suppose.
Re:Google Talk Is Being Discontinued by pvg on Friday March 24, 2017 @06:21PM (#13952701)
I remembered it exactly the other way round and also wasn't sure. It's curious/disturbing that events barely over a decade past are difficult to google. 'What was the first gtalk client'. 'When was gtalk integrated into gmail'. 'When did gtalk get an OS X client'.