After being the first massive program of instant messaging 13 years ago, ICQ disappeared from the spotlight. As a matter of fact, it didn’t disappear, it just lost market to other programs of the same kind as Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger.

Between the most popular software on the network we found Instant mail clients. This type of software allows sending and receiving messages between users connected to a network, being this mass media, one of the most used nowadays.
Although the most used is Windows Live Messenger, there are others worth mentioned, like AIM, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ and Miranda. Let´s see then, the differences between them.