AIM instant messenger shutting down December 15
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Yea man, some classic episodes off that AIM mayne
Yea man, some classic episodes off that AIM mayne
I started using that Trillian messenger to manage and log into different messengers fo chics who used different types of messengers....... 
Man
Them rap battle chats >>>>>
Them rap battle chats >>>>>
Chillin living life how bout you
I started using that Trillian messenger to manage and log into different messengers fo chics who used different types of messengers.......
I used Pidgin! I was fuckin with Linux and that came with it. Had all my shit in one window!
https://www.pidgin.im/
Stopped using that shit back in 2000. It jump started my internet experience though.
I didnt know any of the messengers still worked. Wow
I was just thinking do I even remember my password
Girl I still use the email...lol... I had like 7-10 screen names back in the day. I'd have to disable them and rotate them to keep them available because the max was like 7.
I don't sign into yahoo often, but I used to have a yahoo webcam group years ago. I disbanded it when they integrated webcams into the messenger. I have AOL friends who say they still use Paltalk. Every time a new social media platform came out we used to add each other on them. I don't trust BGOL folks like that though. I'm still a little freaked out some guy recognized me offline from Tagged. Now that I've spent time on BGOL and seen these guys CSI someone from a pinky toe though, I sort of understand.
I think that's why I can't remember the passwords because I've changed names so much. Lol
Back in the day on yahoo messenger some of us here use contact each other, we have our messenger symbol as part of our profile, because if they were ocking people usually it's because they came at someone wrong. But I wouldn't dare attach anything to me now.
RIP AOL Instant Messenger
By Seth Fiegerman October 6, 2017: 11:27 AM ET
AOL Instant Messenger is about to put up an away message forever.
AIM will officially shut down on December 15 after 20 years in service, its parent company announced Friday. The news marks the end of an era for anyone who came of age with the internet in the late 90s and early 2000s.
When AIM launched in 1997, using the World Wide Web required a desktop computer with a clunky dial-up connection that tied up the phone lines. Perhaps more than any other product, AIM helped establish the internet as a place to hang out rather than being a simple utility.
A decade after AIM launched, Apple kicked off the smartphone era with the release of the original iPhone. Untethered from their computers, internet users shifted to a range of messaging apps and social networks like Facebook (FB, Tech30) and Twitter (TWTR, Tech30).
AIM, with a brand recognized by millions, could have capitalized on this shift and emerged as a lead player in the billion-dollar messaging space. Instead, it faded further and further from relevance.
Oath, the company created earlier this year from Verizon's merging of AOL and Yahoo, acknowledged this unfortunate fact in its announcement Friday of AIM's shutdown.
"AIM tapped into new digital technologies and ignited a cultural shift, but the way in which we communicate with each other has profoundly changed," Michael Albers, VP of communications product at Oath, wrote in a blog post.
Case in point: The announcement of AIM's shutdown was made on Twitter and Tumblr, two of the newer communications platforms that helped displace it.
Eulogies poured in for AIM on Twitter, with users remembering old screen names and lamenting the passage of time. As one user put it, "I can't decide which John Mayer song I should quote to express my sadness at the death of AOL Instant Messenger."
Farewell, AIM. We hope that somehow you'll ~BrB~.
AIM offered a platform for people to express themselves with embarrassing screen names, profiles filled with colorful fonts and emotional lyrics, and as many messages as you could send before someone in your house kicked you offline.
The product earned a coveted spot in pop culture, making cameos in You've Got Mail and Sex and the City.
But the service that defined the internet for a generation of users failed to evolve with them.
By Seth Fiegerman October 6, 2017: 11:27 AM ET
AOL Instant Messenger is about to put up an away message forever.
AIM will officially shut down on December 15 after 20 years in service, its parent company announced Friday. The news marks the end of an era for anyone who came of age with the internet in the late 90s and early 2000s.
When AIM launched in 1997, using the World Wide Web required a desktop computer with a clunky dial-up connection that tied up the phone lines. Perhaps more than any other product, AIM helped establish the internet as a place to hang out rather than being a simple utility.
A decade after AIM launched, Apple kicked off the smartphone era with the release of the original iPhone. Untethered from their computers, internet users shifted to a range of messaging apps and social networks like Facebook (FB, Tech30) and Twitter (TWTR, Tech30).
AIM, with a brand recognized by millions, could have capitalized on this shift and emerged as a lead player in the billion-dollar messaging space. Instead, it faded further and further from relevance.
Oath, the company created earlier this year from Verizon's merging of AOL and Yahoo, acknowledged this unfortunate fact in its announcement Friday of AIM's shutdown.
"AIM tapped into new digital technologies and ignited a cultural shift, but the way in which we communicate with each other has profoundly changed," Michael Albers, VP of communications product at Oath, wrote in a blog post.
Case in point: The announcement of AIM's shutdown was made on Twitter and Tumblr, two of the newer communications platforms that helped displace it.
Eulogies poured in for AIM on Twitter, with users remembering old screen names and lamenting the passage of time. As one user put it, "I can't decide which John Mayer song I should quote to express my sadness at the death of AOL Instant Messenger."
Farewell, AIM. We hope that somehow you'll ~BrB~.
AIM offered a platform for people to express themselves with embarrassing screen names, profiles filled with colorful fonts and emotional lyrics, and as many messages as you could send before someone in your house kicked you offline.
The product earned a coveted spot in pop culture, making cameos in You've Got Mail and Sex and the City.
But the service that defined the internet for a generation of users failed to evolve with them.
I didn't know it was still around... I thought it was shut down ages ago.
Naw man...there were like 5 or 6 senior citizens still using it to message back n forth between different floors to discuss what they watched on their Betamax players on the weekend !!!
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