> hat time when half the internet switched to ICQ My impression as a European was rather that AIM was not well know outside the US, while ICQ was. (It was the

> hat time when half the internet switched to ICQ My impression as a European was rather that AIM was not well know outside the US, while ICQ was. (It was the "America Online" instant messenger, no? So while AOL became available to other countries, I don't believe it reached the same market share and notoriety). So I assume the rest of the world was adopting ICQ "from the beginning", and then maybe there was a phase in the US where, in the interest of international communication, they started to adopt ICQ as well? Just conjecture, I wasn't in the US at that time.