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RIP AIM

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There was a time when I couldn't imagine life without AIM. It was facebook, gmail, twitter, and drunk texting all rolled into one. I didn't have a cell phone my first semester of college but got along just fine because of AIM. It all ended so quickly. One day I'm on it 24/7, the next I log on for the first time in years and immediately get an instant message from viper. Not even SmarterChild was left.

AIM Is (Unofficially) Dead

For anyone inside the generation for which AOL was synonymous with the internet, and AIM was prerequisite to any social life at all, some pretty sad news: AOL just sacked its IM team. The old king of chat is paraplegic.
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10-15 years ago, this would have been as unimaginable as no facebook would be today.
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sad news.
AlphaOmega said... im sorry i was confusing...your "Superbowl" was the Redskins losing since you know that the Ravens cant win it all.
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If I heard the door opening chime right now I think I'd instinctively get excited.
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15 months ago

AOL was such a monster in the 90s. Random Sidenote: Another piece of 90s nostalgia, my friend posted this commercial on FB, nothing at all seems dated about it!

Play
Caramello Commercial

This here is a commercial for the candy Caramello. This was taken from a Fall 1993 VHS recording, but who knows how long the commercial was airing before that. Sorry about the hiccup around 0:18.
http://www.youtube.com/v/c7tBGnrugSc
http://thehamsterdam.com/
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AIM Profile - the Facebook profile of the 90s.
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10-15 years ago, this would have been as unimaginable as no facebook would be today.

So true, really puts things in perspective.
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Away Messages: The Facebook Status update of the 90's
Giants. Yankees. Terps.
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15 months ago via 247Sports Mobile

Best part about those late-90s commercials that disappeared quickly and nobody noticed?
AOL Keyword: Suque
"WE WANT MORE WE WANT MORE girl is providing the rallying cry for the 2013 O's." ~dh2k3
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Away Messages: The Facebook Status update of the 90's

Imagine Annette's buddy info
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I am away from my computer right now.
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Away Messages: The Facebook Status update of the 90's

Holy shit is that accurate. AOL had the future right in their laps, but they must have spent $0 in R&D.
Im ready for aa 5th of vodica to end my feels.
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Stalking people was on a different level back then. You could add people to your buddy list by just knowing their username. You could see their "idle time" but never know if they were at their computer, their roommate was on it, or if the mouse just got bumped by someone. Oh the good ole days.
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Holy shit is that accurate. AOL had the future right in their laps, but they must have spent $0 in R&D.

Seriously, all they had to do was take their ONE actually used service and expand on it.
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Stalking people was on a different level back then. You could add people to your buddy list by just knowing their username. You could see their "idle time" but never know if they were at their computer, their roommate was on it, or if the mouse just got bumped by someone. Oh the good ole days.

Also easy to make untraceable aliases and troll the shit out of girls...
Im ready for aa 5th of vodica to end my feels.
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Stalking people was on a different level back then. You could add people to your buddy list by just knowing their username. You could see their "idle time" but never know if they were at their computer, their roommate was on it, or if the mouse just got bumped by someone. Oh the good ole days.

Oh man, I used to have near panic attacks analyzing just that kind of information. If someone I wanted to talk to signed on and then immediately signed off I always took it personally.
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Also easy to make untraceable aliases and troll the shit out of girls...

Make an AIM name the same as one of their friend's, but replace a 1 with an l or vice versa, they never noticed.
Also my LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring poster has "America Online Keyword: Lord of the Rings" under the credits at the bottom
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There was nothing better(?) than coming home from a party drunk in college and AIM stalking chicks in the dorm in hopes of a latenite hookup.
If I had AIM transcripts of things I wrote from Centreville Hall, I'd be mortified.

This post was edited by indyumd on 3/13/2012 at 7:57 PM
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I mean, one of my friends told me that one time, in 7th grade, he BEGGED his mom to end her phone conversation so he could log back on to AIM via dial-up and try to mack on the hottest 8th grade girl in his school.
That certainly wasn't me, though.
"And I try to har-mo-nize with songs the lonesome sparrow sings... There are no kings inside the Gates of Eden."
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Also AIM had a 100 buddy limit. That was the worst day ever-- hitting the limit and having to figure out who to remove.
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Also AIM had a 100 buddy limit. That was the worst day ever-- hitting the limit and having to figure out who to remove.

WAT? No chance.
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WAT? No chance.

In the early days yes. It went up to 250 in the I think early 2000s though.
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Also AIM had a 100 buddy limit. That was the worst day ever-- hitting the limit and having to figure out who to remove.

it had a limit, but not 100.......
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Early aim definitely had that limit.
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I had my buddy list divided into "guys" and "ladies."
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