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AOL to shut down Instant Messanger service after 20 years

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  1. BleedsRocketRed

    BleedsRocketRed Member

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    A/S/L !?

    http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/06/technology/aim-shuts-down/index.html

    Damn, I remember spending many, many countless days/night just chatting away on AOL/AIM from like 97 to about 2008? I literally just logged on my old account and sure enough, nobody is online. It was cool seeing everyones screen name though and made for some good laughs as I took pictures and texted it so some of my friends. Man, my AIM game was strong back then with the ladies lol Me then 17/M/NW Houston meet me at Memorial City Mall in front of Gadzooks, now? 36/M/Chicago... Ouch

    C-Ya! Post some of your memories on AIM...

     
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    A/S/L/ pics? It was a great way of meeting girls back when I was in high school. I met this girl in an AOL chatroom and talked on the phone with her for about a week before she agreed to meet up in person. She wanted me to pick her up a few houses away from heres and I see this shadow figure sneaking out of her 2nd story home and jumping onto a tree branch and finally onto the fence. She was a freaking ninja and look like something from a movie.
     
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    AIM was such a blown opportunity for AOL. They even added voice calling to it way before anyone else even had a messaging service. I wondered why they didn't advertise and run with it.

    But AOL had no corporate vision at the time and was doomed to fail.
     
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    Seriously. Think if AOL had known what Facebook and Twitter would become. I mean everyone used AIM back then. If they'd thought to add some features when their userbase was insane, they coulda been Facebook today.
     
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    They were the Facebook before Facebook. You had Aolrooms. You had a profile.
     
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    Xerobull You son of a b!tch! I'm in!

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    Then what happened?
     
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    Very true, huge opportunity missed.
     
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    Everyone talks about Chatbots now, but I already talked to them on AOL like almost 20 years ago. SmarterChild was one.
     
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    14/F/TX

    Can anyone help with sex ed questions? What's a vulva?
     
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    Anybody down to cyber?
     
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    Man, the memories... The excitement when that girl you liked signed on. Gotta say something cool/funny! Working the buddy icon game. The chat rooms were lots of our introductions to trolls, extreme sexual language, etc etc. Good times.
     
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    Honestly, I run a business and ask agents for emails daily. Anytime they give me an AOL address I chuckle. AOL is Myspace before Myspace became a joke.
     
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    those were the days where i can trick a girl to send me teh secksy pics, and a dude pretending to be that girl sends teh noods from google.

    too bad 12 year olds like ftw will never know
     
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    LOL Who knew back then it was probably some 50 year old dude on the other end and not the hot 18/F that you got a picture of.
     
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    Macked a shitton of hoes on AIM back in the day. They were probably all 45 year old dudes but it was still fun.

    Pour one out for AIM.
     
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    Damn, my craziest moment with aim was finding out this big ass dude wanted to beat my ass back in 6th grade. I kissed his chick while playing truth or dare at a friends house and she told him and then put on her away message that I was going to get my ass beat on Monday. So crazy. Didnt get my ass beat though.
     
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    Damn, and the icons you could choose! Those were the original .gifs
     
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    My ex and I talked for probably 8 hours a day at least when we were 17/18. Eventually moved on to GChat. Then marriage. And then divorced.

    Stupid AOL.
     
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