Instant Messaging is defined as a form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text. The text is conveyed via computers connected over a network such as the Internet. There are a few forms of instant messaging and they are as follows. Web cams is one way and with this you can see each other while you are messaging each other, providing you both have a web cam. Hotmail, yahoo, ICQ and AOL have the intant messaging system that allows you to chat with a person right then. In the last half of the 1980s and into the early 1990s, the Quantum Link online service for Commodore 64 computers offered user-to-user messages between currently connected customers which they called “On-Line Messages” (or OLM for short). So, as advance as we do i’m sure we will come up with more and more forms of instant messaging.
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