| | Instant messaging - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Instant messaging is the act of instantly communicating between two or more people over a network such as the Internet. |
 | | Instant messaging requires the use of a client program that hooks up an instant messaging service and differs from e-mail in that conversations are then able to happen in realtime. |
 | | ICQ was the first general instant messenger combining presence or list of contacts with the ability to send messages. |
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