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824.722 - 842.293 Ben Gilbert

So they came up with away messages because people would be in meetings or, you know, this is the days of desktops. There's no cell phones, barely even laptops. People would go out to lunch and they'd have to put up a message so that when their colleagues were trying to communicate with them, they'd be like, no, no, I'm in a meeting. No, I'm away. Wow. That's the origin of away messages.