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Zucca:
--- Quote from: Artlav on February 05, 2019, 03:15:26 am ---What features are these, if you don't mind sharing?
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First thing than comes in my mind is having my own domain and the freedom to create all the email/alias I want:
paypal@mydomain.com
ebay@mydomain.com
eevblog@mydomain.com
gmail@mydomain.com
trash@mydomain.com
xy@mydomain.com (two or one letters are useful when I have to spell the address on the phone)
and the peace of mind I will never change email address(es) again.
Of course if one of those addresses will be compromized by spammers I will simply deactivate it.
Mover I have 25GB just for emails. In Gmail I had 15GB shared will all the other google crap servicies (photo and Gdrive).
Yes I am a happy fastmail.com customer.
Bottom line is with a few $/month you can get much more than the free stuff on the www, I never invested better my money.
I don't mentioned the privacy... of course.
Zucca:
--- Quote from: bd139 on February 04, 2019, 03:07:32 pm ---IRC actually predates SMS by 4 years.
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Interesting. First IRC Server from Wiki:
Was IRC available on portable devices back then? I am not an expert, just asking.
Oh maybe the pager/beeper device...
bd139:
Yes and no. The first thing I ever used IRC on which could be called portable was someone else's tadpole sparcbook 3. That was about 1995 and it was dialled up into uunet (via SLIP - anyone else remember that?). After that the first truly mobile IRC device experience for me was a Palm Treo 180g in 2002. So not portable as we have now for sure which is why SMS overtook it pretty sharply in the late 1990s. Alas I dragged a laptop around most of the time in the late 90s with FreeBSD and ircii on it and dialled up though.
Treo 180g - felt like I was in star trek. Bet I looked like a right dick
Red Squirrel:
--- Quote from: Zero999 on February 04, 2019, 12:38:40 pm ---Am I the only person who things these apps such as WhatsApp are a total waste of time?
If anyone needs to contact me, I give them my phone number and email. I see no need for anything else.
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Yeah I don't really understand the need for them either. I guess for internet friends, as you don't want to give your actual phone number to people on the internet. Which is what traditional IM was great for, it's odd that most of those services died out. I used to use MSN messenger until they pulled the plug.
JPortici:
Er.. with WA you have to chat with other mobile phones so you need to know the number (well not exactly, you can start a chat with whatever number if you create the link correctly BUT from the app you can start converstations only with known contacts or other people from groups)
three random reasons to use it:
- Groups. Groups are awesome.
- Data Plans. We have had practically unlimited data for years, but we have to pay a lot for SMS and some times also for voice. It's become a cultural thing, my sister was in canada last year for 6 months and couldn't believe it at first that you don't use whatsapp en masse
- Things like live chatting with people from around the world. Altough there are other services like plain emauls or skype, people just want to use whatsapp to contact us for tech support. Some times we get international calls but whatsapp is just more handy. Voice notes, videos and photos in real time without the boatload of crap that comes along with skype which can't just manage to have a consistent video stream. And in some parts of the world WA works, Skype is restricted, emails aren't as handy.
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