Instant Messaging - The Past

We are currently researching, HOW and WHEN the Instant Messaging came to birth / started. What we have been reading, is that Instant Messaging (IM) slowly started up in the 1970's on the local networks around the U.S (mainly). Back then the messaging was all just performed in the console, compareable to the "net send" feature we have in the "Windows" operating system today. The way was not long, from local network to the internet. At the beginning of the 1990's programs such as IRC where discovered around the internet, and that was where the IM really started.

In the late 1990's the modern GUI-based messaging programs came to birth, such as ICQ or AIM - those are also applications we know today and use today.

Next we will publish something about the Internet Relay Chat - IRC.

Kind regards,
Nimai Hemmersbach & André Valentin

New Blog!

Welcome to our new Weblog about Instant Messaging.

The blog serves a school project at the Grenå Teknisk Skole(www.gts.dk), and it will be updated frequently - any posts are welcome(theme related).

Kind regards,
André Valentin & Nimai Hemmersbach