new Adium. Nice.

[klezmer]

New Adium for Mac, v.1.4, includes a Twitter messenger and an IRC client (IRC? – something from the pre-ICQ era I believe).
Doesn't do much for me, but a nice addition anyways.

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[bahaltener.livejournal.com]

IRC is still used a lot especially amongst technical people, geeks and hackers:

[klezmer.livejournal.com]

That's a really good one! Thanks! :-)

[bahaltener.livejournal.com]

Actually, most big open source projects have IRC channels for developers. http://freenode.net/ is a very popular IRC server. It's also commonly used by system administrators. So while XMPP (Jabber) networks are much more sophisticated, IRC stays pretty established.

(BTW, more of this comic can be found here: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/bizarre_cathedral_1 )

[klezmer.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the 2nd link, made me smile :)
Of delevopers' networks, that sounds pretty interesting but quite a different world to me.
I just felt kind of funny having read "IRC" in the Aduim's new version's features-n-fixes, like remembering something I saw 1.5 decades ago on CDs with pirated software, 100-in-1, sold across the FSU countries.

[bahaltener.livejournal.com]

Actually most such multiprotocol clients (I use Pidgin for that) include IRC, XMPP and a whole bunch of proprietary protocols like AIM, ICQ, MSN etc. to cater to a broad number of users.

[klezmer.livejournal.com]

I've heard about Pidgin, just got used to Adium. I believe, it's actually the matter of habit, unless any of them boldly stands out as per its functionality, usability, or stability.
Funny, I've logged on the Pidgin's web-site and saw another bird (the link to compare (http://adium.im/"))

[bahaltener.livejournal.com]

My wife noted to me, that open source projects like to pick up animals for names (especially Mozilla ones) :)

[klezmer.livejournal.com]

Well noted and fair even for the not open source MacOS X versions (big cats, right?). However, Google oddly doesn't conform with this rule picking up desserts' names in alphabetical order for its new Android releases :-)

[klezmer.livejournal.com]

Funny enough, my wife has recently asked me what the FidoNet was. Hullo from the prehistoric times which many of us remember.

[bahaltener.livejournal.com]

While I've heard of FIDO, I never actually used it. Started to use Internet with modem dial-up right away somewhere in Netscape 2.0 times.

[klezmer.livejournal.com]

Same here. I just remember people sharing their FIDO experiences and keeping their respective nicknames at the times of Netscape 2.0 :)

[bahaltener.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia claims that FidoNet is still alive :) http://www.fidonet.org/

[klezmer.livejournal.com]

Who knew! Just quickly read across the article; learned some new (to me) facts about Fido Net. I might be wrong, but that looks like keeping an old estate which does very little from any practical side, but one wouldn't have guts to easily get rid of it. After all, if it still functions, why not?

[bahaltener.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's like keeping an old car alive and kicking for nostalgic reasons.

[klezmer.livejournal.com]

Exactly.