<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1126" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY><FONT face=Arial size=2> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> I do believe ICQ was available by at least 1990, maybe sooner. </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Is this in Internet years? :-)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>From </FONT><A href="http://www.icq.com/company/about.html"><FONT face=Arial size=2>http://www.icq.com/company/about.html</FONT></A></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV><SPAN class=regText><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>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. </EM></FONT></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>