Jabber was originally invented in 1998 by Jeremie Miller, who was sick of using many different closed protocol instant messenger clients. To begin fixing this situation he created jabberd as an open source server in 1999 and by May of the following year version 1.0 was released. Over the course of the last 12 or so years Jabber has evolved into a standards organisation (XMPP Standards Foundation) and developed an open industry standard for instant messaging called the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). As the name suggests XMPP is created using XML, which forms the basis for the systems message stanzas. The protocol has been stable for sometime and now enables projects to take advantage of instant messaging, presence, conference and video chat. With all this on tap Google is not the only one working with XMPP.
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