Modern , MISC@1 , GUI-based messaging clients , as they are known today , began to take off in the mid NUMBER@1 with PowWow , then ORGANIZATION@1 , followed by ORGANIZATION@2 -LRB- ORGANIZATION@2 , NUMBER@2 -RRB- .

Modern , MISC@1 , GUI-based messaging clients , as they are known today , began to take off in the mid 1990swith ICQ -LRB- NUMBER@3 -RRB- being the first , followed by ORGANIZATION@2 -LRB- ORGANIZATION@2 , NUMBER@2 -RRB- .
