The Design and Implementation of Instant Message Based on B/S Abstract Instant message is currently the most popular way to communicate on the Internet,by the way various instant message software have been continuously appearing; service provider offers more and more communication services nowadays. As the development of the Internet, instant message will be more widely used than before. This article first describes the development and the current status of the instant message. Then it discusses the technologies of the instant message such as communication protocol, service mode and friend-making mode. It makes a comparison and analysis with respect to the current technology and also provides some possible solutions for improvement. At last it designs and develops an instant message system named web-msn. The web-msn system is an instant message system which bases on b/s mode. You can login and interact with it through IE. It makes communication and finding friends more conveniently. It is designed using Ajax, which doesn’t need to wait for refreshing page, so carry out communication instantly. This system is based on .NET Framework 1.1 and uses Visual Studio .NET 2003 as the development tool. It accumulated some new technology in .NET into our system. During the process of development, it used the popular reconstruction development method, which optimizes the system design.