dalearyous
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i am just curious really. i have been using pidgin (i think what used to be gaim) for a very long time and was wondering if there was anything out there thats better.
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uh that's an irc client
digsby or pidgin
Unless you're going to go back to the late 70s - early 80's and speak of CompuServe's CBSimulator (been there, done that), then IRC is the king of instant messaging online and predates any silly old IM apps by several years, so his response is perfectly valid.
Internet Relay Chat... the original Internet instant chat/messenging form...
www.meebo.com
I like web apps, keeps shit off my computer. I dont IM that much though anymore.
Meebo is cool because it makes a "desktop" of sorts in your browser window that contains all your chat windows/etc. that you can move around and resize.
Now try explaining that to the "young pups" that grew up or were actually born after 1989 and who still do things one-to-one. Nothing wrong with actual dedicated IM clients - I use YIM to keep in touch with a handful of friends that simply don't "get" IRC and never have.
And there's that entire generation now that, when they see an IRC client in operation, freak out because it's not "chat" meaning voice enabled, nor is it really designed for a bunch of silly emoticon graphics (we're old skewl, with and >:^) kinda stuff instead of big honkin' animated graphics crap), and no real idiotic sounds either.
But hey, YMMV and TEHO... KWIMV?
irssi
IRC just has some very practical advantages that you'll never get out of an IM client... 'Specially for gamers, for instance, I used to play a somewhat competitive MMORPG and we ran a crew of 8 people (the guild was maybe 10-12, not everyone played all the time, etc.)... Having to coordinate everyone logging on and knowing who was gonna be online any given night and who wasn't gonna be using IMs was a royal PITA (and I had to do it a few times when we had guild members who were freakishly scared of IRC).
You forgot: "Now get off my lawn, you whippersnappers!" while shaking your cane in the air
They often say that the current generation is so good at using computers. I instead think that they're mostly just well-trained monkeys, hence why you only see them use IM programs, or do the same thing on their cellphones.
Gawd, I feel old now
BTW, VisualIRC, IIRC, shows emoticon graphics in place of the ASCII smilies
www.meebo.com
I like web apps, keeps shit off my computer. I dont IM that much though anymore.
Meebo is cool because it makes a "desktop" of sorts in your browser window that contains all your chat windows/etc. that you can move around and resize.
Digsby is king. Free, feature full, lightweight (they've done a lot of performance enhancements), and regularly updated.
Joe lives in vegas, I'm highly doubtful he has a lawn per se.
not king IMO until you can join group chats on jabber
I always wondered who the one person who used Jabber was.
I always wondered who the one person who used Jabber was.
Unless you're going to go back to the late 70s - early 80's and speak of CompuServe's CBSimulator (been there, done that), then IRC is the king of instant messaging online and predates any silly old IM apps by several years, so his response is perfectly valid.
Internet Relay Chat... the original Internet instant chat/messenging form...
What a dumb response. Everyone knows what the op was asking. No one cares about 1980. And hes looking for a program that's a good alternative to Pidgin. Which IRC is not.
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