Zephyr protocol

Created at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as part of Project Athena, Zephyr was designed as an instant messenger protocol and application-suite with a heavy Unix background. Using the Unix philosophy of Unix, it was made up of several separate programs working together to make a complete messenging system.

Zephyr is still in use today at few university environments such as Carnegie Mellon University, Iowa State, Stanford, University of Maryland, College Park, and, of course, MIT. It has been largely replaced by modern and more popular instant messenger systems such as AIM or Jabber.

=See also=

*Comparison of instant messengers *Gale Messaging, the Caltech equivalent of zephyr