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The "evolution" of instant messaging ... Eye

The first instant messaging systems that existed from the late '60s, early '70s.
The old Unixes had a tool (which would later be implemented by a student at the University of Washington, recognized and popularized under the name "talk" and in fact, still exists and operates just like in those days) that allowed to establish conversations real time between users of the same system or different systems remotely.
Today, half a century later, instant messaging is still valid, although the systems and software used to transmit the messages have changed somewhat. The simple fact you can send plain text in those days, even the "winks" and 3D animation transmitted through MSN Messenger, many things have happened ...

Most surprising is the size of messaging programs.

This afternoon I had to update an MSN Messenger and I noticed a rather bizarre that program, which originally only broadcast text,

now weighs 66.5 megabytes, and optionally other programs comes with accessories (Which take up as many extra megabytes) of questionable value, and come to be part of a larger package called "Windows Live Essentials, which is Microsoft's response to the lack of Windows software, which makes some users continue turning to the Apple, which bring more profit and basic software which brings the popular base operating system ...

understand that the program does much more now, but do not forget that we speak of an instant messaging program

... something that should be simple and should take a fraction of what fills this monster multifaceted.

By way of comparison, we say that if we use a Jabber client for Windows, downloadable free and also free from the Internet, such as Pandion (1.7 megabytes), theoretically we can do the same, or at least as important that MSN Messenger does, which is to transmit text, space for a fraction of the latter point, and safer.

In essence, instant messaging programs are just that ... programs that send text from one computer to another in real time. Someone knows why "is complicated and grew exponentially as something that originally was so simple? ...