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.

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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 ;)