23 Dec
2002
23 Dec
'02
6:33 a.m.
elijah wright wrote:
While the patent office often gets things wrong (e.g. the hoo ha about Amazon.com's one click patent) this approval does suggest that IM=(online awareness + buddy list + over TCP/IP protocal + messaging) and is something relatively new.
maybe MIT should sue AOL.
Amazing that people have such problems with the concept of Instant messaging. The MIT system did not have a buddy system linked to personal awareness status that could be moved from computer account to computer account. IT WAS NOT IM! Quentin