Comments on: 1996 called, they want their IM back

By: Joe Tan

Joe Tan — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 22:06:39 +0000

Although admittedly, Talk did not break any technological boundaries, I am so psyched up over the fact that for once, here�s an IM program that was not designed for the eyes of 13 year old giggling girls.

I�m sick of yellow, ugly, over-excited emoticons and rude inventions such as winks.

hey!

By: Roba

Roba — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 21:55:02 +0000

Although admittedly, Talk did not break any technological boundaries, I am so psyched up over the fact that for once, here’s an IM program that was not designed for the eyes of 13 year old giggling girls.

I’m sick of yellow, ugly, over-excited emoticons and rude inventions such as winks.

By: Dan Abrey

Dan Abrey — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:56:36 +0000

To be fair to Google, and even though your headline did make me laugh out loud quite hard, their IM app ‘just works’, too. It may lack some of the features of other apps, but most of them are so memory-heavy that I barely miss them at all.

Their applications have always only included neccessities. In MSN Messenger you have tabs, and adverts, and emoticons, and display pictures, and backgrounds, and a load of other stuff which eats your RAM like, well, something that eats a lot of RAM.

A few improvements and I’m in.