[Foundation] A Brief History of Jabber
Julian Missig
julian at jabber.org
Fri May 17 20:15:11 CDT 2002
On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 19:52, Michael Bauer wrote:
>
> Hi. I was writing a little article for someone about Jabber that called
> for a brief history of Jabber (and IM in general). I did my best from
> memory and didn't put in any exact dates so I think it's OK (although I
> did need to gloss over the fact that Jeremie was only 2 when he started
> working on the protocol).
>
> This got me thinking and looking but didn't really find anything about the
> history of IM much less that of Jabber per se. DJ has some in his book
> but there are no dates. I wanted to whip out a little graphical timeline
> and thought I'd ask for some dates. I'd like to include the inception of
> both commericial and open source efforts. If you know have some dates and
> would like to contribute that'd be cool. Thanks.
Gabber interface created (as a GNOME version of cabbar): 27 Jan 2000
First public Gabber release (0.5.0): 1 May 2000
I'd like to see dates for the inception of #jabber OPN, the date we
switched to jdev on Jabber, and the creation of JabberStudio. temas?
Julian
--
email: julian at jabber.org
jabber:julian at jabber.org
More information about the Members
mailing list