Very cool. Big Bad Geek points to a note from Jens Alfke, uber developer, about the history of iChat [original note on Jens' home page]. Interesting stuff if you are an Apple geek. Particularly interesting is that iChat was born a multi-protocol IM client.

I had no idea that Jens worked on iChat. I remember him from his excellent work on the OS 9 Java VM, and, of course, as the author of the Stickies utility.