dschult3
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Post by dschult3 on Dec 4, 2017 23:20:58 GMT
I don't know if our non American friends used AIM, but in the US, AOL Instant Messanger introduced many people to the internet in the mid 1990s. I have so many memories from that era. I agree with Clint here; Not many people care to use it anymore (I still do!), but AIM made the the world go 'round for quite a few people during the height of its popularity. I am sad to see it go. Did anybody here use AOL IM?
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Balder
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Post by Balder on Dec 4, 2017 23:30:48 GMT
MSN was the shit man.
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dschult3
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Post by dschult3 on Dec 4, 2017 23:34:59 GMT
I remember using that as well for my international friends. There was another IM I used to use as well, but I'll be damned if I can remember it. AIM was my mainstay though. |
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Post by teddykongcountry on Dec 5, 2017 2:27:44 GMT
I remember the dial-up and all that. Sometimes we take for granted how good we have it in the modern age.
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Post by stratogustav on Dec 5, 2017 6:36:32 GMT
How was AOL alive for so long? I thought it died when DSL came out.
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dschult3
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Post by dschult3 on Dec 6, 2017 0:00:31 GMT
How was AOL alive for so long? I thought it died when DSL came out. Not many people used AOL after DSL and cable came out, but many people continued to use the Instant Messaging service. My screen names have been around since the mid 90s, for example. |
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scipioafricanus
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Post by scipioafricanus on Dec 6, 2017 1:17:42 GMT
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Post by Armored Core Raven on Dec 6, 2017 2:00:29 GMT
I had ICQ, AIM, MSN and Yahoo! messenger back in the day to keep in touch with all my friends, all lost now, I use open chats (IRC, some Discord), social media (some facebook), forums (this one, GameFAQs, some other minor ones) and comment sections (Youtube and lots of other places) to keep in touch with people these days, it's awful and I hate it but sadly all the messenger programs that were so good back then are now gone and nobody could use them even if they wanted to, a very sad development for the communications on the internet in my opinion, the world has gotten a lot bigger again, like it was back in the early 90s, for a while it felt like the world was so small, like I had all my international friends so close to me regardless of where they were located, but now I feel as they are just as scattered across the far ends of the planet as they literally are, sending a postcard and getting one back the old fashioned way is sometimes quicker and easier than getting hold of someone online these days.
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Post by Dan E. Kool on Dec 7, 2017 15:29:12 GMT
I remember the first time I used AIM. My buddy had to unplug his phone to get his PC online and we just ended up chatting with the girl next door. Like teddykongcountry, that dial-up noise is burned into my memory forever. |
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Post by cobretti on Dec 8, 2017 20:08:40 GMT
How was AOL alive for so long? I thought it died when DSL came out. Not many people used AOL after DSL and cable came out, but many people continued to use the Instant Messaging service. My screen names have been around since the mid 90s, for example. I think there are people out there who still subscribe to AOL. www.dailydot.com/debug/dvd-rental-windows-3-aol-2017/ |
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Post by Cervantes on Dec 9, 2017 0:18:17 GMT
MSN was big over here. I also remember using ICQ before it. IRC was another huge one in the late 90s.
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