ICQ predates other popular IM services like AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) which became synonymous with the instant messaging space. From the mid-90s up until the aughts, instant messaging services ...

(Credit: ICQ) ICQ, which was released several months before AOL's own instant messenger, had 100 million registered users in 2001. But over time, ICQ lost out to competing instant messengers and ...

Long before we had umpteen different online profiles, there was AIM. In the heady days of 1997, when AOL Instant Messenger came into the world, there was nothing else like it. Conceived within the ...

Scheduled for release as part of Windows XP on October 25., Windows Messenger will for the first time allow users of the Microsoft IM tool to send audio and video files from computer to computer. Now, ...

Instant messaging (IM) became popular after Israeli-based ICQ debuted in 1996, which was later acquired by AOL. There are more than three dozen IM services, and WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger ...