When the first instant messengers began to run, none of the engineers in Redmond or Silicon Valley envisioned that this network of networks change.
Windows Messenger - later MSN Messenger, ICQ , iRC , among many others, gave evidence of what would change on the Internet. Information sharing was not only a matter of professional or scientific nature. The real thing was moving, in part, to the virtual, millions of electrons were changing zeros and ones to thousands of hard drives worldwide.
People had so much confidence in those messengers, which was transformed into a communications phenomenon as the emergence of telephone or telegraph. It then displayed the pages where people form groups of interest, and exchanged email addresses. After Y2K, the Internet changed things. MySpace and Facebook creations of young, made the World Wide Web is no longer a traditional communication space, but where each of its participants could modify their content and create them.
