It's crazy how cyclical the tech industry is. It seems like roughly every 10 or so years a new breed of multi-protocol chat clients emerge. 

Not sure if Trillian was the first, but dates back to 2000.

It's crazy how cyclical the tech industry is. It seems like roughly every 10 or so years a new breed of multi-protocol chat clients emerge. 

Not sure if Trillian was the first, but dates back to 2000.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillian_(software)

Pidgin (formerly Gaim) was released two years earlier

i used to make cool things on the internet. i still do, but i used to, too.

It was also the purple app before the purple app ;)