So, who has tried Google Talk (Google Instant Message Client)

[Catch22Dem]

http://www.google.com/talk

Highly anticipated. Seems pretty cool. Needs the ability to let multiple users chat together, and needs file xfer capability. Any other observations?

[DS1]

1. multiple users can chat together? like ICQ was doing in 1996?

:shrug:

/snark not directed towards OP

[Catch22Dem]

2. No offense taken

Perhaps they had a reason for doing it this way. Just seems like such a useful tool though. Anyway, I'll reserve being overly critical as it is only a beta.

[DS1]

4. I'm open to it

As soon as the need arises. I'll tell you one thing though, AOL has LOCK on the 0 - 25 age bracket. I've been sitting behind/next to kids students using their laptops in class, and their lists are hundreds of people long, and they often have 7 or 10 window open at once. People that grew up with IM can multitask like nothing I've ever seen before.

[Catch22Dem]

5. Wow, I've never thought of it like that

I got my first ICQ account in 96 when I was in Okinawa. Of course, I was an adult by then. I was in awe of the whole concept. My wife and I would sit there and wait for the next message like children waiting for santa. I think I had about 5 people on my contact list. All coworkers. Most of them I ignored because they irritated me.

There's no way I could manage 7-10 IM windows at work. :)

[DS1]

8. I was you

I'll never forget the first time I ran ICQ, with my headphones up high because I was listening to music, ( this was before the foghorn icq start sound ) and someone on a chat room who told me to install it messaged me and just about blew my eardrums in. From there on, it grew. What's truly amazing, for me, is that I talking to one person, who ended up dating the sister of a girl I ended up talking to many years later. And we were all separated by at least a thousand miles. It was a "oh yeah, I remember than name!". Amazing.

[Catch22Dem]

9. Oh, get this...

This was also back in Okinawa. I guess around 97 or 98. I was in a chatroom talking to someone. Long story short, this person lived one street over. We were both American military people on a chatsite that was totally unrelated to the Air Force or the military in general, yet there we were, a street apart thousands of miles from our homes in the states. Wild eh?

[DS1]

10. That's really wide

I know I've heard about gamers playing others in the same college building, but you both being out across the Pacific, that's something special!

[ghostsofgiants]

3. Installed it today, but haven't tried it yet

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

6. No smilies, dammit!!

x(

But, I think they are in it for the VoIP.

[Catch22Dem]

7. Yeah, I notice they did color code the smilies though

Not exactly graphically appealing, but perhaps they have something in mind for final release.

[ConcernedCanuk]

11. Win 98 users furget it -darn it -

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" Requires Windows XP/2000, minimum 56k (broadband recommended)"


and I'm out in the boonies in Northern Ontario

our phone lines will not even fully utilize a 33.6k modem!

31200bps is my maximum speed here

oh well -

so yeah

I don't follow the long threads, they are OLD by the time they load!

and you got it

I don't even clik on threads with graphic alerts . . .

Thanks for y'all that do that

sorry Google - ya cut me out

hafta stick with msn fer now