Of Instant Messaging and software for it

I thought since most of us on the web today have been using IM software for a while I might talk about it.

Lets start by talking about where I got started with IMs. For me it started with AOL ( or A-O-HELL to those that were there). It was a brand new feature for me, I could chat online with a friend, some of whom I never met offline. Then some friends pointed me in the direction of ICQ. This was a little bit different of a program but it worked pretty well considering all it had to work with at the time was a 56k modem and it's program that you had to install. I liked this program somewhat but it was not as user friendly as AOL's IM feature. However in it's defense it had the ability to do other things, if I remember right you could share file through it.

After I changed over to Comcast for faster speeds AOL became unnecessary. This was sad for me at first until someone told me that you could download something called AIM for free from AOL so that I could still keep in contact with people from my friends list. When I first moved off AOL I had to change my email service also, at this time I started using Hotmail. Shortly there after I changed to Yahoo. Then burned again I started using Gmail. In all honesty I find Gmail to be the best at keeping the junk to a minimum in my inbox.

I'll continue this later, or maybe tomorrow, but for now I hope it was a trip down memory lane for some of you.