As academic institutions and research labs became the first venues for PC use in the early 1970s, programmers began to develop a means of communicating with others through a system of text-based messaging. This new messaging system allowed people to chat with other users of the same computer or a machine connected on a local network at their respective university. Today, the desires of those early IM pioneers led to the development of a thriving and competitive IM market today.
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The history of IM can be traced back almost as far as the electronic personal computer, itself.
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