From: John Cuccia 

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 06:24:23 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
>news:23b64vgtj7vsvnbrf9ekdrketl7q73bkbu{at}4ax.com...
>
>> Since I don't know much about IM at all, and don't have any IM clients
>> installed here,  I can only guess that it's because they either
>> started as, or still are, AOL users, and AIM was right there in front
>> of them so they got comfortable with it and learned how to use it?
>
>ICQ was the leading IM client for a long time, then AIM hit them like IE hit
>Netscape.

Was AIM developed and distributed after ICQ became popular?

>> That's odd, I haven't seen a Netscape icon on my desktop since I ran
>> OS/2.  As I recall, none of NT 3.51, NT4, or W2K installs Netscape.
>> Where does your Netscape come from?
>
>I fired up IE, typed in www.netscape.com, and clicked on the download
>netscape.

Exactly my point. Most people didn't bother to download Netscape, because
their OS contained a functional browser.

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