[macintologist]

EARTHLINK TEAMS WITH ICHAT TO CHAT-ENABLE THE INTERNET

I stumbled upon that page. It's about a company called iChat Inc and their iChat services forming a partnership with Earthlink back in 1996. For those that don't know, the iMac was announce in May of 1998

[Kerrigan]

Holy Mary Mother of God!

I'd better hurry and switch to Windows before Apple goes out of business!

[macintologist]

Originally Posted by Kerrigan

Holy Mary Mother of God!

I'd better hurry and switch to Windows before Apple goes out of business!

That's preposterous

[turtle777]

And they failed to extort money out of Apple ?
Losers

-t

[macintologist]

Originally Posted by what_the_heck

And they failed to extort money out of Apple ?
Losers

-t

Amen to that

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by what_the_heck

And they failed to extort money out of Apple ?
Losers

-t

They were probably out of business by then.

[jeffreyfrabutt]

From what I can gather (via www.webarchive.org) they abandoned "ichat" and became "globalchat" in 2002. I would wager that Apple paid them a nice chunk of change to relinquish the iChat trademark.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by jeffreyfrabutt

From what I can gather (via www.webarchive.org) they abandoned "ichat" and became "globalchat" in 2002. I would wager that Apple paid them a nice chunk of change to relinquish the iChat trademark.

Nice theory.

Can we find any evidence that Apple paid them off ?

-t

[cybergoober]

My world is shattered.