The Adium team originally intended to release these changes as 'Adium 2.0'. Pidgin's (formerly 'Gaim') libpurple (then called 'libgaim') library was implemented to add support for IM protocols other than AIM – since then the Adium team has mostly been working on the GUI. Īt this point, the Adium team began a complete rewrite of the Adium code, expanding it into a multiprotocol messaging program. There were several upgrades to Adium 1.0, ending with Adium 1.6.2c. The version numbers of Adium since then have followed a somewhat unusual pattern.
Adium was created by college student Adam Iser, and the first version, 'Adium 1.0', was released in September 2001 and supported only AIM.
