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Chat was the first thing to follow after the creation of the email protocols and clients.
Originally there was IRC and then that expanded.
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- There is now [IRC OFTC ](https://www.oftc.net/WebChat/ ) (The Open and Free Technology Community) as well, aka WebChat
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- [Linen.dev ](https://www.linen.dev ) is an interesting alternative to chat which incorporates both Discord and Slack messages and also has [forum ](https://www.linen.dev/s/linen/c/blog ) features.
- [Slack ](https://slack.com )
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- [Discord ](https://discord.com )
- [Google Chat ](https://mail.google.com/chat/u/0/ )
- [Whatsapp ](https://whatsapp.com )/Facebook messenger
- [Apple iMessage ](https://mymessage.apple.com/mmuser/ )
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- SMS for texting
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- [Signal ](https://signal.org/download/ )
- [Telegram ](https://telegram.org )
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- [Line ](https://line.me/en/ )
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Forums:
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- [Zulip ](http://zulip.com )
- [Discourse ](https://discourse.org )
- [Quora ](https://nl.quora.com )
- [Lemmy ](https://join-lemmy.org )
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