What is Internet Paging? Good question. Imagine a program that can send messages across the internet. Quicker than Email. Less annoying than IRC.
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ICQ (I seek you) from Mirabalis is free. A "Beta" Mac version is available from www.icq.com. It's only a meg or so. When you get the program you enter some info. As much or little as you like, and it'll go and register you, after that you will get an ICQ number. Your ID is usually up to eight digits. But it works. And you can change your username to whatever you want. Messaging is simple. And the message will wait for the user to come online. Apart from that, you can send Files over the program, send URLS along with descriptions and send email. Downers: The chat room fuction doesn't work well with PC-side users, which apparently has something to do with custom colors, which the Mac version doesn't yet support. The E-mail function just opens Claris Emailer, which sucks. The program has a habit of going offline from time to time, which could be due to server errors, butt I'm not sure. |
AOL Instant Messanger provides quick messaging and a large user base. Usernames are hard to find. Even most numeric alterations (such as "Betty244"), so don't be surprised if you have to go through a few names. Pretty much all it is is a messenger, to send messages to another person. Of course, they have to have AIM or AOL. AIM comes free with Netscape Communicator 4.5 and instant messaging is built into AOL's software. Downers: Fewer features than ICQ. |
ICQ came be found at www.ICQ.com
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