PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS The Command Line

"Google repeatedly launched overlapping messaging products over the 16 years following Google Talk’s 2005 launch."

Ars Technica provides a product-by-product chronology of Google's messaging efforts from Google Talk onward and documents repeated launches, replacements, shutdowns and overlapping strategies.

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