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I’d say that it feels like just yesterday, but it totally feels like decades ago :)

I’m very lucky to still be close with so may of the truly amazing individuals that helped build Jabber, and over the years deeply honored by all those that spoke to me about how it inspired them.

While at the surface it may seem like all of our efforts had little impact on the big “messaging silos”, I am most proud of how much Jabber/XMPP has made it easy for anyone to build/host/extend a messaging and presence service. Twenty years ago the concepts and architectures were opaque, now they’re commonplace.

Happy Birthday!

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Hey Jeremie! It's really awesome to have you here!

I've tried to dig up some more historical background besides of the Slashdot announcement, but failed. Do you happen to have an old copy of the 1999 changelog / code base (maybe a backup of the CVS or SVN server), just out of historical interest. The archive.org history only goes back to around 2004.

Also it's really amazing how far you've been looking into the future back then...

FWIW, the https://github.com/mawis/jabberd/ logs go back to 2000.

I remember decades ago seeing it come out and thinking we already have irc and email and chat. Why throw in "with xml" and think it's going to be better.

Shows what I know. Way to stick with it. :)

No, you were right. The XMPP protocol is awful.

How crazy is it that we not only know each other in real life because of Jabber, but also work together. :)

I have many, many fond memories of hanging out on the old IRCs with the Jabber crew. 20 years! Geeze.

Jeremie, I'm watching your talk about telehash on InfoQ and I wonder what happened to the project? Is it worth pursuing ... ?

Telehash has been waiting for the right time to get focus again. We've been very busy with our other work currently, but it is in no way forgotten. We're hoping to come back around to it soon. Message us on our Slack if you'd like to chat more.

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