29th Anniversary of Instant Messaging

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Tim O'Reilly
Dec. 20, 2002 11:48 AM
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I got the following message from Brian Dear today:

http://www.platopeople.com/termtalk.html

Considering all the talk in the news these days about the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granting AOL a patent for instant messaging, it's kind of interesting that PLATO was doing it so long ago...

Brian Dear
PLATO History Project
La Jolla, CA
www.platopeople.com

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unix - talk command
2002-12-27 06:31:21 anonymous2 [Reply | View]

talk has been a unix staple as long as I can remember.

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