Definitely not before 1996. They were immitating AOL Buddylist as far as I know, but open to anyone not just AOL Online service users.

The closest thing I know of was Zephyr. Most other systems were either polling or scoped only to one system.

sdw

Larry Cannell wrote:

> 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.


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