{"id":2171,"date":"2002-12-18T15:18:58","date_gmt":"2002-12-18T15:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2171"},"modified":"2002-12-18T15:18:58","modified_gmt":"2002-12-18T15:18:58","slug":"aol_patents_im","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2171","title":{"rendered":"AOL patents IM? Huh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam writes that<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<blockquote>\n<p>AOL <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsisfree.com\/click\/-3,11402064,1717\/\">patents<\/a> instant messenging software. [<a href=\"http:\/\/live.curry.com\/\">Adam Curry: Adam Curry&#8217;s Weblog<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p \/>\n<p>After reading the article I&#8217;m kind of speachless. I can think of a fair amount of prior art that would say that ICQ wasn&#8217;t the first to do something like this.  How about <a href=\"http:\/\/web.dodds.net\/~vorlon\/PV-HOWTO\/sect6.html\">zephyr<\/a>? I was using that back at CMU in the early 90s (if not a little earlier). How about TinyMUD?  IRC? Or heck, finger and talk.  I remember using a talk program on the pdp11 computers back in high school and talking with people on my school&#8217;s other campus.  I just love how well the patent system works sometimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam writes that AOL patents instant messenging software. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry&#8217;s Weblog] After reading the article I&#8217;m kind of speachless. I can think of a fair amount of prior art that would say that ICQ wasn&#8217;t the first to do something like this. How about zephyr? I was using that back at CMU in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}