there was AOL Instant Messenger. Someone might even say that AIM was the original social network. This was how you chatted with friends and people you just met online. Who doesn’t remember choosing a ...

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Meanwhile, AOL highlighted a pact Wednesday with instant messaging ISV IMLogic to target its Enterprise AOL Instant Messenger service, launched in 2002, to the corporate crowd. Sunnyvale ...

The networks that facilitate these chats are closed, so unlike with e-mail, members of AOL's instant-messaging programs can't reach people on the services operated by Yahoo! Inc. or Microsoft's MSN.