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Instant messaging was pioneered in the early Internet era; the IRC protocol was the earliest to achieve wide adoption. [5] Later in the 1990s, ICQ was among the first closed and commercialized instant messengers, and several rival services appeared afterwards as it became a popular use of the Internet. [6]
1 paź 2024 · IM was invented in 1971 as a chat function on a government computer network. American computer scientist Murray Turoff created IM as part of the Emergency Management Information Systems and Reference Index (EMISARI) for the Office of Emergency Preparedness.
23 kwi 2020 · Learn how instant messaging evolved from a tool for programmers and emergency communications to a ubiquitous way of staying in touch with friends, family, and colleagues. Explore the origins and features of chat programs from Talkomatic to WhatsApp, and how they shaped our online interactions.
17 lis 2016 · The History of Instant Messaging. 1961 – MIT’s Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS), along with other multi-user operating systems, helps to pioneer instant messaging by allowing up to 30 users to chat in real-time. 1988 – Internet Relay Chat (IRC) allows users to connect to networks with client software to chat with groups in real-time ...
4 paź 2023 · Instant messaging as we know it today owes its roots to SMS, the service that allowed users to send text messages between mobile phones. SMS, initially introduced in the 1990s, marked a...
28 maj 2024 · TechCentral has a look at the history of instant messaging (IM), which goes all the way back to the very early days of computing, to the era of Beatlemania and the space race between the US and the Soviet Union.
28 maj 2018 · Through a detailed account of the history of online chat devices, this article shows the emergence, over time, of two distinct interactional formats underlying these social media.
