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Instant messages in multi-user systems like CTSS and Multics. -
CB Simulator is the first online chat service used in a massive way. -
CVC creates Quantum Link with exchange of messages with extra cost for each shipment -
Suge Internet Relax Chat (IRC). Group talks, private messages and file exchange. -
CVC becomes America Online and launches the AOL for DOS messenger. -
AOL introduces AIM. Real-time texts, chat rooms and file transfers. -
Microsoft launches MSN Messenger. The conversation window with the contact list is customized. -
Ericsson, Nokia and Motorola form the initiative to create Mobile Instant Messaging. -
Skype begins its ascent (created in 2003). Years later it is very popular. -
Google launches Google Talk with information exchange that can be used. -
The social network Twitter is created that transmits or exchanges short messages live. -
Facebook (social network created in 2004) presents its integrated chat. In 2011, it launched an application for iOS and Android. -
2 former Yahoo employees founded Whats App, the most important mobile instant messenger in 2011. -
Microsoft announces the acquisition of Skype and the disappearance of Windows Live Messenger. -
Mobile messaging companies such as Line, Viber, Wechat, Telegram, among others, appear.