Internet Messenger ( IM ) is a computer program
Internet Messenger ( IM ) is a computer program that allows you to send instant messages ( instant messages) between two or more computers via a computer network, usually via the Internet (which is why Internet communicators). It differs from e-mail in that, in addition to the message itself, information about the presence of users is also sent, which significantly increases the likelihood of a direct conversation.
Communicators send information in accordance with the rules established by communication protocols, so that publicly available documented protocols are usually implemented by many messengers, providing an almost unlimited group of recipients, while encrypted protocols force users to use programs prepared by manufacturers, thus limiting the possibility of communication.
Communicators very often connect users through the servers they join and on which they depend. Sometimes so extreme that the user is sentenced to advertisements released by the application manufacturer.
History
Many of the ideas used in messengers are based on the old but still popular Internet chat protocol - IRC.
Early instant messaging programs displayed the characters as they were printed-communication was more like a phone conversation than messaging. Unix talk commands work, very popular in the 1980s and early 1990s. In modern messengers, a conversation usually involves exchanging lines of text.
A simple form of instant communication was implemented in the PLATO system in the early 1970s. In the following years, engineers and scientists used the conversation program to communicate over the Internet. The first messenger in the form in which we know them today, and running on systems other than Unix/Linux, was ICQ, released in November 1996. After its premiere, many similar instant messaging programs were created, working on various networks.
The latest messengers offer video conferencing or voice calls (VoIP), so the line between these services is blurred.
On December 19, 2002, AOL Time Warner, which bought Mirabilis, the creator of ICQ, announced the acquisition of an American patent for instant communication, but at the same time announced that it does not currently intend to apply this patent.
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