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Project brings back iChat audio and video calls
Original: Resurrecting iChat audio and video conferencing
A developer has published work on resurrecting iChat, Apple's discontinued messaging app, restoring its audio and video conferencing capabilities. The write-up on the pipetogrep blog details how the once-defunct calling features were brought back to life. It has drawn attention on Hacker News, where readers are nostalgic for Apple's early-2000s chat client and interested in the technical reverse-engineering involved.
Why now: Nostalgia for Apple's discontinued iChat and interest in the reverse-engineering needed to revive its calling features are driving discussion.
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