Instant messengers care for your personal space: according to a Pew Research Center web survey of American adults conducted in July 2020, 8 out of 10 Americans don't pick up cell phone calls from unknown numbers.
Instant messengers let you send a short message that will surely reach another person.Īs the need for data protection grows from year to year, users prefer instant messengers that provide end-to-end encryption. Telegram, for example, guarantees that all information comes to the server already encrypted. Nowadays, instant messengers have a ton of functions, going far from the initial idea of just sending messages. Messengers let us send text messages, photos, audios, videos, documents, share our geolocation, create public channels and discussions. How the First Instant Messenger Appeared and What It Was Like They also let businesses communicate with clients. ICQ (or I Seek You) is crowned the first messenger to grace the earth.Ĭreated by a team of Israeli students in 1996, ICQ became the first application for instant message exchange. It all started as an app for friends and friends' friends. Thanks to the positive rumor mill, ICQ became a worldwide phenomenon that still exists. In the first two years, the number of ICQ users grew from several people to 9 million by the beginning of 1998.Ĭoncurrently the American ISP AOL registered its own AOL Instant Messenger (or AIM) in 1997, which became popular in Northern America. It was integrated into the Netscape Navigator web browser and was available for every AOL client.
It allowed the company to expand its market share. Ads appeared on ICQ, while the users could create their own instant messenger/messenger app based on the ICQ protocol: Adium, jimmz, Miranda, and QIP. These required the same unique UIN number that ICQ did. In fact, the apps differed only in the graphic shells and ads usage. Now it sounds weird, but the ICQ privacy policy directly said that by typing literally anything in the messenger the user resigns their copyright and allows to republish it: ICQ lacked privacy: every time a user went online their whole friend list received a notification. WhatsApp is a free instant messenger that allows users to send text messages, images, video and audio files, e-documents, and apps online. WhatsApp has both mobile and desktop versions.
Businesses can resort to a special app called WhatsApp Business, which lets entrepreneurs use the messenger to communicate with clients on behalf of the company. WhatsApp is the most popular worldwide instant messenger, according to the research. You can log into the app with your mobile phone number. The messenger can save a message in a separate "Favorite messages" folder. However, there is no way to delete a message without any trace, as the app will replace it with a "Message was deleted" note.
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