[Air-l] History of Instant Messaging

Naomi Susan Baron nbaron at american.edu
Fri Nov 29 12:25:25 PST 2002


I'm trying to track the history of modern instant messaging (including ICQ,
America Online, Yahoo, and MSN). In particular, I'm looking for the dates
when each first appeared (ICQ is the only one I've managed to track: 1996).
Does anyone have any historical info?  Thanks for the help.

Naomi

Naomi Baron
Professor of Linguistics
American University
Washington, DC  20016-8045






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