[Air-l] Instant Messaging

For IM, you might also want to look at the various applications in Unix - talk, ytalk, ntalk, wall, etc., that allowed instant communication. Not to mention IRC, but I believe that was later. I think of Unix as relatively porous for cross-communication; for example in the panix.com shell you can type 'hey <username>' for messaging across terminals - Alan http://www.asondheim.org/ http://www.asondheim.org/portal/ http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt older http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/internet_txt.html Trace projects http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm