To: oceanview
Michelle Malkin at Hot Air has a video from O'Reilly tonight of a guy named Tyson Vivyan who was a Page from Tennessee in 1997. He said that Foley IM'd him. Did we have IM's in 1997? The guy claimed that he didn't initally know who he was getting the messages from because there's just so much of that out there.
His interview seemed fishy to me. I wonder if he worked for a dem or a republican?
To: Warriormom
I know that AOL had IMing then, but I think it was pretty new (to me, at least!)
26 posted on
10/03/2006 10:20:23 PM PDT by
GOP_Thug_Mom
(libera nos a malo)
To: Warriormom
Yea AOL Instant Messenger came on in 1995 or 1996.
41 posted on
10/03/2006 10:50:19 PM PDT by
okstate
To: Warriormom
I was first IMing back in 1996, so the answer is a definite yes.
45 posted on
10/03/2006 10:57:29 PM PDT by
AntiGuv
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To: Warriormom
I saw that same interview, and thought the exact same thing. I have had a computer for a number of years, I was racking my brain trying to figure out if they had IM 10 years ago. He was very weird, there was definately something about him that was not right.
To: Warriormom
Did we have IM's in 1997?Instant Messaging GuideSince the early '90s, AOL has always had a form of Instant Messaging...(it wasn't nicknamed "GayOL" for nothing)
The History of Instant Messaging
Mirabilis – established itself as the first general instant messenger in November, 1996...
Instant messaging
MIT's Project Athena created the first instant messaging tool in 1987 with the graphical Zephyr client.
To: Warriormom
From the Berkley link...American Online (AOL) first released AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) in May, 1997.
To: Warriormom
Yes there were IMs around in 1997, like AOL or ICQ
113 posted on
10/04/2006 4:48:38 AM PDT by
Kaslin
(No matter what the left says. G.W. Bush will be remembered as the best president of this century)
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