From AOL Instant Messenger to Vine to Ask.fm, many of our favorite apps of the 2000s and 2010s are no longer around.

ICQ predates other popular IM services like AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) which became synonymous with the instant messaging space. From the mid-90s up until the aughts, instant messaging services ...

It was one of the first major instant messenger clients of the 1990s. It saw broad uptake alongside the likes of AOL Instant Messenger and MSN Messenger. Yet, it outlasted both of them despite not ...

AIM is the first major instant messaging service to take advantage of Facebook Chat's new API/interface. According to a post by David Reiss on Facebook's blog, 2 billion chat messages are sent on ...

(AOL Time Warner is the parent company of CNN.com.) Since 1995, Microsoft has bundled AOL's Instant Messenger (AIM) on its Windows desktop. But there has been friction between the two giants.