In the heady days of 1997, when AOL Instant Messenger came into the world, there was nothing else like it. Conceived within the hallowed halls of AOL, AIM introduced a large swath of early ...

according to the third annual Instant Messaging Trends Survey from AOL. Today, multiple screen names, parental IM rules for teens and rampant "away messaging" are standard across all regions ...

Anoox Instant Messenger ("AIM") is a Free Service of Anoox Social network - offered for Free* via Advertising and Donation support. Via AIM People Worldwide can be connected with their Colleagues ...

ICQ focused on one-on-one chats rather than on chatting in groups, which you would find on services like AOL or even in IRC. ICQ certainly influenced other chat and messaging services like AIM ...