[Adium-devl] The History of Adium

[Adam Iser]

Sproing!  Dial-up internet will never be the same.

Random early-build Adium screens:
http://www.mutablecopy.net/adium/

Original releases were Open Source by license (inherited from
firetalk), but not in spirit as there was no public repo and it was a
one-man effort.  In the later 1.x releases Evan hoped in (and a few
others) and we decided to make it more of a community thing.  This
brought about Adium 2.0/X with its multi-protocol support and
horrifically over-architected plugin-based design (Hurray oo
inexperience), which slowly grew into the awesome beast it is today
(Largely thanks to the community's support).  All of it mocking my
inability to draw a messenger bird :)

Fun fact for ya: The original Adium duck sounds (QUACK!) are actually
me Mooing like a cow (I've always liked cows) played in reverse and
shifted in pitch.

:)

- Adam

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Colin Barrett <timber at lava.net> wrote:
>
>  On Apr 28, 2008, at 7:56 PM, Joe Ranieri wrote:
>
>  >
>  > On Apr 28, 2008, at 22:38, Peter Hosey wrote:
>  >
>  >> On Apr 28, 2008, at 19:11, Evan Schoenberg <evan.s at dreskin.net>
>  >> wrote:
>  >>> ... it could be interesting to build a history on the Trac wiki...
>  >>> what sort of things would be interesting or useful to include?
>  >>
>  >> Adam starts Adium or CocAIMe.
>  >>
>  >> CocAIMe becomes Adium.
>  >
>  > I thought it became Adium CK (AIM + DUCK) first? http://www.adiumx.com/blog/archives/2006_09_01_archive.php
>
>  That was the original impetus for the name Adium. The CK was dropped
>  pretty fast, iirc. Adam might no more, he'd be a good person to talk
>  to if you were really interested in building a detailed timeline of
>  this early stuff.
>
>  I should dig up the pictures from AdiumCon 03 and 04, both held in my
>  grandmother's livingroom. AdiumCon 04 had Me, Adam, Laura, Steve Holt
>  and enderMXB, iirc. (And Sproing. Who could forget Sproing?)
>
>  -Colin
>
>
>
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