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AOL Instant Messenger is gone.

by rnixon

At about 1:15 this morning AIM shut down for good.

There wasn't even a goodbye message, just a sudden login failure error.

Sigh. The AIM client itself sucked, but the protocol was lightweight, reliable, and well supported, and everyone I talked to was on it.

Now I need to use half a dozen different clients.

If you were any of these people on AIM... send me a message.

angrylittlefox
eternalnight287
gaurelin / gaurellin
seymont
tangobeat

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Added:	6 years, 4 months ago 15 Dec 2017 09:36 CET

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TheCemmie

6 years, 4 months ago

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you can use discord

Coop

6 years, 4 months ago

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sorry who still uses dialup, we had aol and that was dial up in 2004

rnixon

6 years, 4 months ago

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@ Coop

What does dialup have to do with AIM?

And to answer your question, millions of people use dialup because there are large areas that simply cannot get anything else.

And it's not just rural areas, either. Chunks of downtown Seattle, for instance, can't get cable, DSL, or fiber.

Coop

6 years, 4 months ago

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@ rnixon

sorry thought aol and dialup were consigned to history

DjChris

6 years, 4 months ago

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I've heard, I've use to do AIM to talk with people but haven't used since 2008, but it started me off on talking with people in the US, for that I'm gonna miss it.

DragonStar731

6 years, 4 months ago

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20 years and this is the thanks it gets? I think this is the work of that Ajit Pai or whatever. Still I never used AIM before. *heavy sigh* The world is screwed up.

rnixon

6 years, 4 months ago

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@ DragonStar731

The AIM shutdown had nothing to do with that. AIM only had about 500,000 users left. (At its peak, there were over 100 million.)

While it probably didn't cost much to run, the new corporate overlords didn't want to be bothered with it.

DragonStar731

6 years, 4 months ago

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Oh. That explains it much. Its kinda like how Netflix and such drove Blockbuster out of business. Since Discord and other related sites are making it obsolete.

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