[stathisg]

To add one more in the list, Google Talk eventually became Hangouts. The list states that it was abandoned in 2013, but it was actually still working properly at the end of 2014 when I last used it. I don't know if it works any more, since I eventually switched to hangouts (although I was reluctant to do so - https://twitter.com/StathisG/status/530740696719060992).

[yasth]

Talk was replaced by Hangouts, not became. There are important differences because talk was based on open models, and Hangouts... was not.

[notatoad]

no, talk literally became hangouts. For the android and chrome apps at least, the change was pushed as an update to the existing talk app. There's differences between what it is now and what it was before, but it was an update.

[Dylan16807]

Odd, I have a memory of my phone telling me that hangouts was a replacement for talk..

Not that it matters. Pushing a change "as an update" is a detail of how the app database works. It has no bearing on whether it's a replacement or not.

Wikipedia sure seems to think they're different things, and they love to merge articles.

Also if it's not a replacement they sure could have chosen better wording for: "Google Talk app for Windows will stop working on Feb 16 2015. It is replaced by the new Hangouts Chrome app."

[theandrewbailey]

It was working up until last week or so. I got an email saying that "it looks like you're trying to use talk. we've discontinued it."