[JDEV] OT: AOL Patents IM (Patent creates IM wrinkle )

[Stephen D. Williams]

Definitely not before 1996.  They were immitating AOL Buddylist as far 
as I know, but open to anyone not just AOL Online service users.

The closest thing I know of was Zephyr.  Most other systems were either 
polling or scoped only to one system.

sdw

Larry Cannell wrote:

> > I do believe ICQ was available by at least 1990, maybe sooner. 
>  
> Is this in Internet years? :-)
>  
> From http://www.icq.com/company/about.html
>
>     In November 1996, only four months after the establishment of
>     Mirabilis, the first version of the ICQ ("I Seek You") product was
>     deployed over the Internet.
>
>  
>  


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