13 Apr
2008
13 Apr
'08
11:35 p.m.
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008, Simon Lyall wrote:
That is not anything new. ICQ is 10 years old and IRC was common in the early 90s. I would guess plenty of people on this list use (and used back then) both to talk to their friends and team mates.
There's a difference here. In the 90's we used IRC and email. Today people use IM applications and web forums/website IMs. There are students which use almost no email outside of communicating to the university, to the point where they never check their university email. :) In fact, the students complain that they're receiving craploads of email from the university and related groups for stuff they don't want - a microcosm of spam on one campus. :) Adrian