Systems was added, and finally standards such as SMTP emerged, easing this Scenario is somewhat similar to the situation before the Internet, when bulletinīoard systems had their own mail systems. Yahoo! Mail users could send email only to other Yahoo! users, and so on. In which users of Hotmail could send email only to other people using Hotmail, However, there were a growing number of incompatible networks. Releasing their own ICQ clones, and the generic term of 'instant Soon other suppliers, most notably Microsoft, AOL, and Yahoo!, began While email gave you an electronic version of a letter, ICQ provided somethingĬloser to an electronic multiplayer Post-it note. Start that this new method of communication was likely to catch on quickly. There were alsoĪ lot of issues with early versions of the client. Reinstalled your operating system), then you lost your contacts. Your contact list on the client, so if you used multiple machines (or The system was developedīy a company called Mirabilis, and was called ICQ (I Seek You). Telephone system, it assigned everyone a unique number. That was like email, only faster and better suited to short messages.

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