When it first debuted, AIM was seen as utterly revolutionary, and it was. Within a few years, the chat service had millions of teenagers carefully curating "buddy" lists and spilling their drama ...

America Online (AOL) has been offering twonearly identical clients for instant messaging, Buddy List and AIM. What separates these clients isthat the Buddy List software is exclusive to AOL ...

Early web-based instant messaging (IM) services like AOL Messenger and MSN Messenger were similarly insecure, but the landscape has shifted dramatically in recent years. Arguably the most ...

Microsoft s MSN Messenger, much like Yahoo!Messenger, started out as a multi-protocol client with the capability to connect to AOL s AIM (AOLInstant Messenger) service. As a new instant messaging ...