Happy Birthday to #InstantMessaging and #RealTimeCommunication with #XMPP!
Emerged from the #Jabber #community in 1999 and originally designed to provide an open and #decentralised alternative to #ICQ and #MSN, XMPP evolved to an independent alternative for todays #chat apps.
#rtc #whatsapp #signal
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as XMPP, is in fact, XMPP/Jabber, or as I've recently taken to calling it, XMPP plus Jabber. XMPP is not a chat system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning Jabber system made useful by XML, the XMPP libraries, components, servers, and clients comprising a full chat ecosystem as defined by IETF.