Meet iPager - Help Apple #GetTheMessage
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Get ready for a new era in communication (again).iPager is a device that uses outdated messaging tech, like Apple uses when texting with Android. It comes wi...

I’m not a fan of the “war” between Android and Apple when it comes to SMS/texting. The rest of the world doesn’t use SMS/RCS/iMessage as much as WhatsApp and the like, so the US is pretty much lagging behind everyone else on this anyway.

That being said, I have to admit Android did a good job with this!

  • tal@kbin.social
    6·
    9 months ago

    Open source community have their own chat system since 2014 (Matrix).

    I think that IRC is kind of the original open chat system.

    EDIT:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat

    IRC was created by Jarkko Oikarinen in August 1988 to replace a program called MUT (MultiUser Talk) on a BBS called OuluBox at the University of Oulu in Finland, where he was working at the Department of Information Processing Science. Jarkko intended to extend the BBS software he administered, to allow news in the Usenet style, real time discussions and similar BBS features.