Oh yeah? Well I just patented your patent
:-) -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:51 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: AOL patents instant messaging Everybody stop thinking right now! I've just patented "Using any form of organic material for information processing." Matthew Small IT Supervisor Showstopper National Dance Competitions 3660 Old Kings Hwy Murrells Inlet, SC 29576 843-357-1847 http://www.showstopperonline.com -----Original Message----- From: Dan Phillips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:50 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: AOL patents instant messaging Yeah those where the days. You could actually talk to people without them asking you if you where naked, what your "a/s/l" was or to inform you that they were a l33t HaXoR -----Original Message----- From: Stephenie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:47 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: AOL patents instant messaging Yeah, pow wow, I used to use that before I ever even heard of icq. You could do web surfing together, whiteboard, instant messaging and even chat rooms... Was way better than IM at the time. ~~ Stephenie -----Original Message----- From: Dan Phillips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:39 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: AOL patents instant messaging Didn't there used to be some ICQ like program called Pow-Wow? I can't remember if it pre-dated ICQ or not. -----Original Message----- From: Robert Everland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:28 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: AOL patents instant messaging That's who they secured the patent through. It wasn't aol who received the patent it was ICQ whom they had purchased. Robert Everland III Web Developer Extraordinaire Dixon Ticonderoga Company http://www.dixonusa.com -----Original Message----- From: jon hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:05 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: AOL patents instant messaging Whatever...I remember using irc way before ICQ ever came out. Hell, how has the unix talk command been around? -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wednesday, December 18, 2002, 9:12:49 AM, you wrote: HH> In other news...Time Warner has submitted a patent for air.... HH> ================================================== HH> Dec. 17 - America Online has quietly secured a patent that could HH> potentially shake up the competitive landscape for instant messaging HH> software. The patent, filed in September this year, grants AOL HH> instant messaging subsidiary ICQ rights as the inventor of the HH> popular IM Internet application. The patent covers anything HH> resembling a network that allows multiple users to see when other HH> users are present and then to communicate with them. HH> http://www.msnbc.com/news/848770.asp?0dm=C14KT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
