AOL Instant Messenger by America Online
An easy to use Instant Message program is AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). It allows you to have conversations with people who are also online, in real time, one on one, in a chat room, all across the globe. All you have to do is type what you would like to say. With this program you can keep track of your friends and even organize them into different groups. This way you can stay in touch with friends, family, and even coworkers.
MSN Messenger & Windows Live Messenger By Microsoft
MSN Messenger (known as MSN) is a program used to communicate with other MSN Messenger users in real time
Yahoo! Messenger by Yahoo!
Yahoo! Messenger, also known as YIM, also known as Yahoo! Instant Messenger and also known as Yahoo! Pager is of course, an attempt by Yahoo! to compete in the Instant Messaging game.
ICQ by Mirabilis.
ICQ (I Seek You) is the first Instant Messaging program. It was invented by two Israeli Students in Tel Aviv and AOL currently owns ICQ.
Google Talk by Google Inc.
The newest of all messengers is Google Talk. It is a messaging and voice program that does not have avatars, smilies annoying typing sounds, colorful or large chat text or anything I never liked about most messengers
Trillian is a pretty heavy piece of software for a Chat client. Keeping in mind that it supports connections from AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Instant Messenger, IRC and probably a lot more, Trillian seems pretty light to be carrying all that around.
Skype by Skype Technologies S.A.
I kept seeing the code callto://name on an increasing number of sites and blogs, some even with a "Skype Me!" button. This URL syntax was used for Microsoft Net meeting calling and hardly seen online, but had re-emerged with the more popular software called Skype - now with over one hundred million downloads.
guess I wasn't hip enough to know about one of the most popular new messengers. I had to be told about Gaim.
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