Graying Out

For many years I’ve interacted with my fellow humans, I think perhaps more than any other way, via the medium of Internet chat. For those to whom those terms “Jabber” and “XMPP” are new, they represented the idea that any chat service should be able to talk to any other chat service, so you could use whichever you liked best, and hang with your friends wherever on the Net they hung their chatty hats. Chris sat for many years at the heart of Google’s culture and was a voice for sanity in a place that needed a whole lot more of it.

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