He is not a big phone person and only wanted to talk over AOL instant messenger.
Around 2000, however, I found myself drawn more to AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) than I did to AOL's chat rooms.
He called it ZuckNet, and it was basically a primitive version of AOL Instant Messenger, which came out the following year.
Look at Skype, which has over 250 million users and is continually growing, and think back to AOL Instant Messenger (AIM).
The IMfree Personal Instant Messenger, a small wireless handheld device for those young people that's designed to do one thing: AOL Instant Messenger.
Leonsis says he is certain the phrase came out of AOL in the early 1990s, where he and company founder Steve Case were developing what would become AOL Instant Messenger.
FORBES: Who Coined 'Social Media'? Web Pioneers Compete for Credit
Another I-nternet attraction is the topsy-turvy farce of Microsoft lashing out at America Online for refusing to make its chat client, AOL Instant Messenger, interoperable with Microsoft's chat client, MSN Messenger.
The New York media company, which officially cut ties with Time Warner in December, is striking a deal with Facebook, allowing it to integrate social media features into AOL Instant Messenger.
Other IM programs don't require that--users of AOL Instant Messenger, for instance, might have a totally different IM name than their e-mail address, or might not even have an AOL account at all.
Apple says the new software has 150 new features, among them an instant-messaging client called iChat that's compatible with America Online 's (nyse: AOL - news - people ) AOL Instant Messenger.
Some of the most interesting speculation has centered around iChat, Apple's instant-messaging client that lets users send messages using their buddy lists from AOL Time Warner 's (nyse: AOL - news - people ) AOL Instant Messenger.
And the company failed to exploit many of its advantages and annoyed many with its unwillingness to work with the grain of the net culture by supporting the Netscape browser or opening up AOL's Instant Messenger to work with other services.
At startup XP displays an icon for Windows Messenger, Microsoft's knockoff of AOL's market-leading Instant Messenger.
Although AOL is prepared to open up its Instant Messenger servers to GSM network operators, it remains steadfastly opposed to the idea of doing so for users of other instant messaging services -- although these services are not taking AOL's resistance lying down.
That means millions of AOL users can't chat online with the folks on Yahoo Instant Messenger or MSN Messenger, and vice versa.
应用推荐