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		icebraining on Aug 5, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We're heading for AOL 2.0 It may be naive, but the reality is that it wasn't that uncommon. Before WhatsApp, GTalk did support a standard protocol. Mail providers all use standard protocols. RSS used to be "the future".

yoz-y on Aug 5, 2015 [–]

I would say that GTalk only supported standard protocols from the start to gain traction. Email is probably too widespread and decentralised to be handled differently.

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