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Instant Messaging


The education community invented the Internet in order to facilitate the quick and easy transfer of data. From this application grew newsgroups, shared databases, email, and live text communication. Instant Messaging is now a staple in Internet life, from casual use to encrypted business and government communications.

AIM (AOL Instant Messaging)
Because of America Online's early saturation of the ISP market, their Instant Messaging software had a built-in audience of millions in over a dozen countries when it was introduced. The program allows users of AOL and of Netscape browsers to communicate with each other instantly through one-on-one chat screens. Users may now send instant pictures and sounds.

ICQ ("I seek you")
Now available in 13 languages, ICQ is a universal instant chat program that extends its forum to telephone, email, pagers, file transfers and more. Groups can connect together for conferencing and game playing.

Windows Live Messenger
Whereas AIM is for AOL.com members only, Windows Live Messenger (aka MSN Messanger) is for anyone with a Hotmail or MSN email account. Besides instant chats, users can send music, pictures, pages and phone calls. Supports 26 languages.

Yahoo Messenger
Instantly share chat, pictures, live video, and sound among the Yahoo.com members. Various entertaining environments can be downloaded as your screen backdrop.

IRC
Internet Relay Chat was developed in Finland in 1988 and began linking people in real time via the Internet as soon as the Internet hooked up to Finland. Group chats on over 12,000 subjects, plus one-on-one chats, are available 24/7. This site has detailed IRC how-to information.

Trillian
This brilliant and stylish program links together AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and IRC all at once. Better yet, it's free!

Odigo
Now in 15 languages and compatible with AIM, ICQ, Yahoo Messanger and MSN Messenger, Odigo can communicate in groups or one-on-one. The neat visual interface lets each user identify themselves from thousands of faces, and the program comes in a dozen different skins.

12Planet (One To Planet)
A company offering communication software for proprietary use. Dealing in instant messaging, chat, forum and voice servers, 12Planet incorporates instant communication into corporate extranets, intranets and Internet Web services

WiredRed
Secure instant messaging for businesses. Packages for small, medium and large companies handle functions from one-way messaging to networks of 10,000 simultaneous users.

Instant Messaging Planet
This is a Web site devoted to the more commercial applications of Instant Messaging technologies at large, putting great emphasis on security and encryption.