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Re:IRC – Why It Failed (2018) [pdf] by dehrmann on Sunday March 08, 2020 @06:19PM (#22521016)
> Is IRC really a failed endeavor

AIM not pivoting its social graph to be Facebook. That's a failure.

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Re:IRC – Why It Failed (2018) [pdf] by basch on Sunday March 08, 2020 @07:50PM (#22521584)
Even to be a sms replacement. But I wholeheartedly agree, AOL and AIM failing to become Facebook is an all time failure.
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Re:IRC – Why It Failed (2018) [pdf] by icedchai on Sunday March 08, 2020 @07:35PM (#22521478)
AIM could’ve been Slack, too. Many companies used it for internal communications
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