Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Messenger for chat
ICQ was released in November 1996 as a way to make Unix's y-talk program work for Microsoft Windows, and quickly became very popular. Other instant messenger programs such as AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! instant messenger and MSN messenger, which are more web-based now make instant messenging the more popular type of online chat experience. Whilst your IP address cannot be seen directly in ICQ, it is in fact visible when using a hacking tool, and it can be used to hack a person's computer using a trojan horse or flooding the computer. Instant messenger programs have improved searching capabilities, but are not very good at multi-person chat capabilities, in comparison to IRC or talkers. Instant messenger programs usually do have an ignore ability, but this can be circumvented easily by quickly creating another account. Instant messenger programs are a good way to meet people in your area, and are often used to find someone to meet in person, something which was not easy to achieve on talkers or IRC or earlier chat programs.
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. Most services offer a presence information feature, indicating whether people on one's list of contacts are currently online and available to chat. This may be called a 'Buddy List'. In early instant messaging programs, each letter appeared as it was typed, and when letters were deleted to correct typos this was also seen in real time. This made it more like a telephone conversation than exchanging letters. In modern instant messaging programs, the other party in the conversation generally only sees each line of text right after a new line is started. Most instant messaging applications also include the ability to set a status message, roughly analogous to the message on a telephone answering machine.
Popular instant messaging services on the public Internet include Qnext, MSN Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Skype, Google Talk, .NET Messenger Service, Jabber, QQ, iChat and ICQ. These services owe many ideas to an older (and still popular) online chat medium known as Internet Relay Chat (IRC).
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. Most services offer a presence information feature, indicating whether people on one's list of contacts are currently online and available to chat. This may be called a 'Buddy List'. In early instant messaging programs, each letter appeared as it was typed, and when letters were deleted to correct typos this was also seen in real time. This made it more like a telephone conversation than exchanging letters. In modern instant messaging programs, the other party in the conversation generally only sees each line of text right after a new line is started. Most instant messaging applications also include the ability to set a status message, roughly analogous to the message on a telephone answering machine.
Popular instant messaging services on the public Internet include Qnext, MSN Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Skype, Google Talk, .NET Messenger Service, Jabber, QQ, iChat and ICQ. These services owe many ideas to an older (and still popular) online chat medium known as Internet Relay Chat (IRC).
// posted by wibsio3 @ 12:05 AM 
