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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: S-99 on March 15, 2008, 10:34:23 am
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Odigo. It was like the really cool bastard child of all the multi-instant messengers of the day. It just sort of vanished without a trace. That's the first time i've seen something really huge on the net just vanish. It's really sad. Anyone got anymore info about it?
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What's Odigo? :drevil:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odigo_Messenger
For a short time in 2004 Odigo Messenger allowed users to use the service to talk to users in other IM networks, but the feature was discontinued at the beginning of 2005, presumably for legal reasons.
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It was a really cool instant messaging program. It supported aim, icq, yahoo, msn, and icq. It was way cooler than trillian and free. It featured the ability to find other odigo users who were at the same website as you were, it featured the ability to change your mood and interests so you could find people with the same moods and interests. Among odigo being a multi-instant messenger, it also had it's own messenger network which was actually a lot cooler than the other IM services out there. It was also the perfect way to talk to strangers at any time. I used odigo from 2000 until 2003. It was a really fun messenger, had a nice interface, and ****, i talked to so many people from all over the world with it too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odigo_Messenger
For a short time in 2004 Odigo Messenger allowed users to use the service to talk to users in other IM networks, but the feature was discontinued at the beginning of 2005, presumably for legal reasons.
After further review through massive googling you'll find that to be sort of innacurate. It just sort of vanished without a trace but did remain functional even up until 2006. I'm curious if it's still functional. I found one place on the net with a tweak to a config file that points odigo to a different server (where odigo was probably temporarily moved over too) and retained on and off functionality. Sometimes it worked for a couple of months and sometimes it didn't. Idk, if it's still going on or not. I want to find information because it's interesting.
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[...] It featured the ability to find other odigo users who were at the same website as you were [...]
That's enough of a reason for me to avoid it.
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Why BloodEagle? looking at Pr0n when you're mom's on Odigo too? :drevil:
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:wtf:
Anyone who uses the word- Pr0n
-should be locked in a room for twelve years with nothing but a dictionary and a skylight.
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P.P.S.
It's really very sad that the spell checker recognizes the word,Pr0n
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P.P.P.S.
I like my privacy, which is why anything that monitors what I'm doing on a computer earns my ire.
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You could easily turn off that website scanning thingy. So far the only information i can find on odigo is hard to find. Seems some odigo employees warned about the 9/11 attacks a couple of hours before they happened to other users in odigo. And then there's the whole, the odigo network might still exist with limited accessibility. And everyone speculating upon this once great IM program.
And many are angry that comverse who bought odigo didn't release any of it's code. They just shut it down and kept it behind closed doors. There's many out there who would love to have it's source code.