AOL Instant Messenger is dead

[harrybarracuda]

We may not hear from Buttplug and oxxo today as they scramble to find a replacement.

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — AOL Instant Messenger, the program that gave rise to online chat and countless abbreviations and acronyms, died today.

AIM was 20.

Michael Albers, VP of Communications Product at Oath – the new company made up of Verizon, Yahoo and AOL properties – in October told reporters that the service would end in December.

Albers remembered AIM fondly. “It tapped into new digital technologies and ignited a cultural shift, but the way in which we communicate with each other has profoundly changed.”

At that time, it was decided AIM would come to an end December 15.

AIM started as a standalone app in 1997. It quickly became wildly popular within the AOL desktop program.
Competitors like ICQ, and messengers from Yahoo and Microsoft MSN, became popular as well but didn’t threaten AIM’s popularity. Usage began to slow when Google launched GChat in 2006, which was discontinued earlier this year for Google Hangouts.

Facebook Messenger — with two billion users to download the mobile app — all but guaranteed other chat programs’ demise.

AIM is survived by AOL and AOL Mail. AIM was pre-deceased by GChat, Friendster, iTunes Ping and Yahoo Buzz.
MySpace declined to comment on the loss. Slack did not return a DM.

No information was given for a memorial service.

AOL Instant Messenger Dead At 20 « CBS Los Angeles

[raycarey]

AIM is survived by AOL and AOL Mail.

AFAIC, this is the actual news.

[harrybarracuda]

AFAIC, this is the actual news.

The phrase "Arseholes On Line" could not have been more apt.

[oxxo]

It's been dead for years. Another tinpot organzation hitting the skids. They should have had better risk management.

[Dragonfly]

I didn't realize they were still alive,

I bet you were on AOL like fly on shit back in those days, harry

AOL has always been for tossers and Indian scammers

[Maanaam]

Ferk...I can't count the years...somewhere in the vicinity of 20, maybe, where I even last heard of AOL.

[Dragonfly]

apparently Harry kept tab on it all those years, still probably use it, secretly of course

[harrybarracuda]

AOL has always been for tossers and Indian scammers

So what was your account name?

[Maanaam]

So what was your account name?

I think I had one. Can't remember it. This was in the infancy of AOL and the webby thingy.
It must have been later when it got to be for Indian scammers.

[harrybarracuda]

There was a point when Arseholes On Line were responsible for the vast majority of spam out there, and the c u n t s wouldn't do a thing about it.

[raycarey]

I think I had one.

why were non-americans and people not living in america using AOL?


serious question....i remember it as being very america-centric.

[harrybarracuda]

why were non-americans and people not living in america using AOL?


serious question....i remember it as being very america-centric.

It still has a UK arm.

It was one of the first that offered dial up "internet" and AOL news feeds and shite.

It was generally aimed at the computer illiterate, and boy did it gather them in droves.

Which is why it's nailed on Buttplug had an account. "Arsebandit69" or something similar I would imagine.

[GracelessFawn]

From what I heard, loads of people fell-inlove on AOL msgr. Some even got pregnant using it. 555

[Dragonfly]

It still has a UK arm.

It was one of the first that offered dial up "internet" and AOL news feeds and shite.

It was generally aimed at the computer illiterate, and boy did it gather them in droves.

Which is why it's nailed on Buttplug had an account. "Arsebandit69" or something similar I would imagine.

Everytime someone send me an email from an AOL.com address, I simply delete it without even reading

if Harry was born before 1990, he would have been an avid AOL user

instead he is on facebook now, full of "like" and "update" shit, like AOL was full of "rofl" "lol"