Re: [JDEV] OT: AOL Patents IM (Patent creates IM wrinkle )

[Larry Cannell]

> I do believe ICQ was available by at least 1990, maybe sooner. 

 

Is this in Internet years? :-)

 

From http://www.icq.com/company/about.html

In November 1996, only four months after the establishment of Mirabilis, the first version of the ICQ ("I Seek You") product was deployed over the Internet.