![]() Number of XMPP Enhancement Proposals (XEPs), which define extensions for The Jabber protocol was standardized by the IETF as the Extensible MessagingĪnd Presence Protocol (XMPP) in 2004. So, but I’ve never heard anyone talk about the email network breaking,īecause for that to happen would require every mail server in the world to I’ve seen the MSN network go down a few times in the last year or Resilient a single server failure affects only the users of that particular This setup makes the Jabber network quite This server forwards messages to the recipient’s server, if His or her own server, just as users of the email network connect to their own Each user of the Jabber network connects to Jabber was based around the same network topology as email, and Jabber IDs The project, known as Jabber, produced its first major release in 2000, Very quickly, the idea evolved intoīuilding a complete IM system with support for gateways to proprietary services. Transparent interconnect between IM systems. In 1998, a project began to provide an open source IM transport layer-a Systems was added, and finally standards such as SMTP emerged, easing this Scenario is somewhat similar to the situation before the Internet, when bulletinīoard systems had their own mail systems. Yahoo! Mail users could send email only to other Yahoo! users, and so on. In which users of Hotmail could send email only to other people using Hotmail, However, there were a growing number of incompatible networks. Releasing their own ICQ clones, and the generic term of "instant Soon other suppliers, most notably Microsoft, AOL, and Yahoo!, began While email gave you an electronic version of a letter, ICQ provided somethingĬloser to an electronic multiplayer Post-it note. Start that this new method of communication was likely to catch on quickly. There were alsoĪ lot of issues with early versions of the client. Reinstalled your operating system), then you lost your contacts. Your contact list on the client, so if you used multiple machines (or The system was developedīy a company called Mirabilis, and was called ICQ (I Seek You). Telephone system, it assigned everyone a unique number. That was like email, only faster and better suited to short messages. About 10 years ago, several of my friends started talking about a new thing
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