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    • brianlittlejohn
      brianlittlejohn last edited by

      AOL Instant Messenger is Shutting Down, I didn't realize it still existed.

      https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/06/aol-instant-messenger-shut-down/

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      • scottalanmiller
        scottalanmiller last edited by

        AIM is still a thing.

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        • dafyre
          dafyre last edited by

          Wow... I can't even remember the last time I logged into AIM.

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          • DustinB3403
            DustinB3403 @brianlittlejohn last edited by

            @brianlittlejohn said in AIM Shutting down:

            AOL Instant Messenger is Shutting Down, I didn't realize it still existed.

            Who did?!

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            • coliver
              coliver last edited by

              ... We use it daily...

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              • momurda
                momurda last edited by

                Yea, wonder what guys in small retail investment shops who trade are going to do. Many of them still use AIM and Yahoo messenger daily to contact people.. Or at least did 2 years ago.

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                • SmithErick
                  SmithErick last edited by

                  I grew up on this, had like 5 usernames for all the babes.

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                  • JaredBusch
                    JaredBusch @momurda last edited by

                    @momurda said in AIM Shutting down:

                    Yea, wonder what guys in small retail investment shops who trade are going to do. Many of them still use AIM and Yahoo messenger daily to contact people.. Or at least did 2 years ago.

                    The petroleum trading industry use yahoo messenger

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                    • StuartJordan
                      StuartJordan last edited by

                      haha, I was more ICQ and messenger back in the day.

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                      • Obsolesce
                        Obsolesce last edited by

                        Yeah, my @netscape.net email was migrated to AIM or something like that a long time ago... after that I lost access to it.

                        I had that as a recovery email to an old gmail account, and lost access to it because I couldn't access the @netscape.net email anymore 😞

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                        • Obsolesce
                          Obsolesce last edited by

                          I had no idea AIM was still alive.

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                          • NerdyDad
                            NerdyDad last edited by

                            Used trillian so that I could have AIM, yahoo messenger, ICQ, and MSN Messenger all tied into one app.

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                            • DustinB3403
                              DustinB3403 last edited by

                              We all need to sign up for a billion more accounts so they don't close it.

                              AIM is the bomb. . . I wonder if I can still use my 1 million free hours of internet. . . I've only gone through a 10th of the CD's they've sent me. . .

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                              • JaredBusch
                                JaredBusch @StuartJordan last edited by

                                @stuartjordan said in AIM Shutting down:

                                haha, I was more ICQ and messenger back in the day.

                                I still have access to my ICQ. I never log it in, but I have access. One of the early 6 digit UINs

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                                • Dashrender
                                  Dashrender @StuartJordan last edited by

                                  @stuartjordan said in AIM Shutting down:

                                  haha, I was more ICQ and messenger back in the day.

                                  Ditto.

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                                  • Dashrender
                                    Dashrender @JaredBusch last edited by

                                    @jaredbusch said in AIM Shutting down:

                                    @stuartjordan said in AIM Shutting down:

                                    haha, I was more ICQ and messenger back in the day.

                                    I still have access to my ICQ. I never log it in, but I have access. One of the early 6 digit UINs

                                    You too eh?

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                                    • EddieJennings
                                      EddieJennings last edited by

                                      We used AIM up until a couple of years ago when we moved to the free version of Slack.

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                                      • Reid Cooper
                                        Reid Cooper last edited by

                                        I wonder how many users remain on AIM. And how much it was costing them to run. I wonder why not just leave it on unless there were still a lot of users. Then, it seems like it still would make sense to leave it on.

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                                        • NetworkNerd
                                          NetworkNerd last edited by

                                          I had no clue it still existed. I would have been a sophomore in high school in 1997.

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                                          • StuartJordan
                                            StuartJordan last edited by

                                            The ICQ sound, classic....

                                            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iCPIUGnHQ8

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