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A once-popular but now extinct "buddy" on America Online's Instant Messenger that freely answered questions on movie times, weather and stocks is poised to make a comeback next month--but at a price.

The actual number of chat messages sent each day is hard to come by, but with WhatsApp alone accounting for billions of users, you can imagine the sheer volume of ongoing conversations. Not all of ...

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If you were born anywhere between 1981 and 1996, you might remember an internet that's vastly different from the one we use today. Along with experiencing a smorgasbord of '80s and '90s nostalgia, ...

There are a lot of instant messaging apps available these days, and we’re here to check out some of the best ones. Instant messaging became normal a long time ago, and not that many people use SMS ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you were a user of the World Wide Web between the late 1990s and early 2000s, there’s a good chance you used AOL Instant ...

America Online Inc., Nokia Corp. and VoiceStream Wireless Corp. together have released a version of the AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) service built into the Nokia 3390 mobile phone, the companies ...