Original: In the latter half of the 1980s and into the early 1990s , the Quantum Link online service for Commodore 64 computers offered user-to-user messages between currently connected customers , which they called '' On-Line Messages '' ( or OLM for short ) , and later '' FlashMail . ''
Simplified: In the last half of the 1980s and into the early 1990s , the Quantum Link online service for Commodore 64 computers offered user-to-user messages between currently connected customers which they called '' On-Line Messages '' ( or OLM for short ) .