Pretty much every text is slop-generated.
I like the idea, not what OP has done with it.
Talking about ICQ with zero screenshots is like talking about Hamachi without talking about LAN parties and how games were played at the time.
Pretty much all articles are just slop-text. Not even talking about alternatives or what has been done in the meantime. For example, ICQ led to AIM and Trillian, which led to pidgin/libpurple, then to jabber/xmpp etc.
I will be adding the details soon, especially screenshots, thanks for the feedback. Since english is not my mother tongue, had to cheat a bit.
Ai slop with the "I model myself after the AI greats" and most everything except the into is in lowercase
AIM->GAIM from the libre community, then Pidgin/Libpurple, with NAIM, CenterIM, TMSNC and OFC AMSN.
This is what happens when people which didn't live the era try to write an article with LLM slop.
I remember loving Freetalk against Mcabber and now Profanity because it could autocomplete anything you entered, not just nicknames.
On our LAN parties at the time, everyone started to use Trillian because of their support for the Bonjour protocol which used multicast DNS locally. That way you could easily "group teams" together, because the hostnames / IPs were also visible and you could add them then to the Hamachi groups where the games happened.
Hamachi was an amazing tool before they got bought, it made networking so easy for everyone; and you didn't even need to know what an IP was.