Hi Naomi, I too am looking for the history information of instant messaging and could only locate ICQ as November 1996. I am doing a project in one of my courses on IM and would like to get this information. If you have it, could you possibly forward any information that you have? I am trying to find out who was the first to implement IM. When did the implementation take place? Thank you and have a great day! Please send any information to this e-mail address tanyaburns@msn.com <mailto:tanyaburns@msn.com> Tanya Burns University of Phoenix Online 1-800-366-9699 x6171