The messaging space also had the amazing Adium client during the last round of messaging wars, and less amazing Trillian as reverse engineered clients distributed or sold. I for one am excited to see this space heating back up.

And Miranda and Kopete and more. Might have used them all at some point.

Trillian used to be amazing. It is up there in my memory as about as life changing as Winamp was for me personally.

I remember being jealous I couldn't use Trillian because I didn't have a way to pay for it. Running AIM, ICQ and MSN all at the same time.

Ah man, it was glorious. I was really just in awe at how I could talk to all my various friends in one app, regardless of which platform they were on. Such a great app. I recently went to the webpage for the app and see it's sort of a shell of its former self and is some sort of business tool now. Kind of a bummer, but such fond memories of how amazing it was back in the peak of the various instant messaging tools, before unlimited text messaging was an affordable option.