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The instant messaging protocol became popular during the late 1990’s. However instant messaging developed earlier in the 1960’s. Often times, an intranet was enabled to allow instant messaging at computer networks for universities and corporations using peer-to-peer protocols. The first national instant messaging system is the Zephyr Notification Service that arose out of Project Athena in the 1980’s.
Zephyr was created at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The code for Zephyr is heavily tied into Unix. Zephyr is not one single program, but a conglomeration of separate programs working together. It was invented by Ciarán Anthony DellaFera. The code was worked on throughout the 1980s’.
Zephyr arose out of a conversation between DellaFera and a co-worker. It was meant to resolve remote procedure calls on a distributed network. DellaFera recognized the two essential problems to the remote procedure call: user location and delivering small real time messages. This system is still being used at a few universities. Certain aspects of Pidgin contain elements of Zephyr. Further details about Zephyr can be found at: http://www.rfrench.org/papers/usenix.pdf.