what is an AIM address and ICQ number?

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Answer 1

An AIM Address is an american term that has now become national.

It is mainly used within large offices to determine where a person sits.

For example E6 101 - May suggest that the sit in the East of the building on the 6th floor at the 101st desk.

AIM is also the address used for people with AOL instant Messaging.

Answer 2

An AIM address stands for AOL Instant Messenger, AOL's equivalent to MSN Messenger from Microsoft. ICQ is a long established Instant Messenger from before the Internet when people communicated through bulletin boards and instead of a name you were assigned a number to be able to chat with others.

Answer 3

An AIM address and ICQ number are exactly the same as a Hotmail address or Yahoo! address.

AIM (AOL Instant Messenger, I think) is an instant messaging address for AOL.

ICQ is another type of Instant Messenger. It uses a number (about 8 digits long, as far as I remember) as your login / chat name. You can then change your display name as you can in Yahoo! or Messenger.

Hope that helps.

Answer 4

AIM and ICQ are two different instant messaging programs. On AIM your identity is actually called a screen name and on ICQ it's a number.

Answer 5

They are used to access an Instant Messenger service (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_messaging); there are many different types of these, including AOL Instant Messenger, or AIM (http://www.aim.com) and ICQ (http://www.icq.com).

AIM uses a "screen name" to uniquely identify people whilst ICQ uses a unique number, in much the same way as your email address identifies you.

Whilst you used to have to run one application or program for each IM service you wished to use, you can now use "multi protocol" programs such as Adium for Macs (http://www.adiumx.com) or Miranda for Windows (http://www.miranda-im.org/) which are capable of "talking" to mutiple different instant messenger services.

Other IM services include Yahoo!'s Messenger (http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/) and Microsoft's MSN/Windows Live Messenger (http://get.live.com/messenger/overview).