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[Number_6]

Wait, AIM had boobs?

My high school gf and I had to use imaginationsincenopics.gif.

How were there boobs???

 

[FalsettoVibe]

This kinda makes me sad..

 

[Earthbound64]

Wait, AIM had boobs?

My high school gf and I had to use imaginationsincenopics.gif.

How were there boobs???

You could send photos and video...

 

[bluehat9]

I remember using it for the last time in freshman year of college. Memories...lol.

 

[CountAntonius]

Always preferred aim to yahoo messenger.

*salute*

 

[MontyBrown]

Poor man's MSN.

 

[Earthbound64]

Poor man's MSN.

AIM came first, so...

 

[SirMossyBloke]

Poor man's MSN.

Pretty much. Only old people and Americans used it.

 

[digitalrelic]

I'm going to take this opportunity to share one of the most cringe inducing stages of my life.

My AIM profile was the following:

I don't just tolerate pain, I ENJOY it.

"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything" - Tyler Durden, Fight Club

 

[FyreWulff]

Aw damnit



ps me and everyone I knew did the trick where you added yourself to your buddy list so you could tell you went offline before the client actually knew it was offline itself

 

[Jabronium]

Wow. Actually met my wife over AIM in college. That's how I kept in touch with everyone at that point. Didn't realize it was still in use.

 

[Number_6]

You could send photos and video...

Ah. During my AIM days, digital cameras were new/expensive.

 

[Kyrios]

AIM was the shit back in middle/high school. Still remember the sound effects and cheesey profiles lol

 

[Chip N Chance]

I slid into a few dm's back in middle school. Thank you aim.

 

[Earthbound64]

Pretty much. Only old people and Americans used it.

Hate to break it to you, but AOL UK was a fairly noteworthy thing.

I slid into a few dm's back in middle school. Thank you aim.

You mean IMs

 

[Chip N Chance]

Hate to break it to you, but AOL UK was a fairly noteworthy thing.




You mean IMs

I guess that would be the more accurate term for aim. My screen name was awful.

 

[BizzyBum]

We're all old as hell but it is kinda cool to have experienced that 90's AOL early internet age.

 

[Fancyarcher]

So many memories back in elementary using it. Of course it's outdated as heck and a relic, but hey it's amazing it lasted as long as it did. End of an era, truly.

 

[itwasTuesday]

You mean IMs

I still catch myself saying that term over all the others.

 

[FyreWulff]

when you're talking to your friends and your parent picks up the phone on dialup

 

[Earthbound64]

We're all old as hell but it is kinda cool to have experienced that 90's AOL early internet age.

And the sad thing is since none of it could be archived, it's all memories in the past, and pretty impossible to get anyone to understand now.

 

[Captain Zyrain]

Wow AIM was amazing. I had so many friends who had AOL and were stuck in their walled garden and AIM was the only way I could talk to them with my open internet connection.

Met so many girls on AIM in the late 90's early 00's

AIM & Love@AOL were hot shit at the turn of the century.

And the sad thing is since none of it could be archived, it's all memories in the past, and pretty impossible to get anyone to understand now.

Somewhere I have some AIM conversations that I backed up for god knows why reasons. It was pretty funny finding them a few years back to see a portrait of young internet me.

 

[BasilZero]

I still can't believe AIM outlived windows live messenger/msn

 

[Earthbound64]

Met so many girls on AIM in the late 90's early 00's

AIM & Love@AOL were hot shit at the turn of the century.

Agreed.

 

[Lamel]

So much nostalgia.

 

[MrSaturn99]

Damn, so much nostalgia. End of an era.



I should log on one more time for old times sake.

 

[Aiustis]

I still use my aim email.

 

[Earthbound64]

I still use my aim email.

Fortunately that will still be active.

 

[Archaix]

Damn, so much nostalgia. End of an era.



I should log on one more time for old times sake.

I just did. Only one person who I have no interest in getting back in touch with had it installed on their phone. Nobody else was online, and now I'm scrolling through 9 years of neglected spam on my AOL email address.

 

[FUNKNOWN iXi]

RIP

 

[Shouta]

Gonna have to pour one out for AIM and maybe even log into my old account.

 

[ChubbyHuggs]

Hi, nice to meet you.

We can play pool on Yahoo if you're down to lose

 

[Earthbound64]

We can play pool on Yahoo if you're down to lose

Don't think I ever played pool on Yahoo. I remember I used to play checkers, Chinese checkers, and occasionally chess on Yahoo with my ex-wife when we were dating. I think I still have them bookmarked.

Gonna have to pour one out for AIM and maybe even log into my old account.

Time for a GAF AIM group!

 

[Deleted member 325805]

Discord will kill off everything eventually.

 

[PlayALLtheGames]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I mean...ok.

Loved AIM though. So many memories in high school chatting up the ladies.

"Sup sexy "

Y'all know what I'm talking about.

 

[ReAxion]

i still use AIM for work. not sure what we're gonna do.

 

[brinstar]

I actually still use AIM to talk to 2 people out of sheer habit lol

 

[IdreamofHIME]

Never used it, I was a MSN kid.

 

[Joeku]

Y'all should play Emily is Away if you want to re-experience AIM. It's free: http://store.steampowered.com/app/417860/Emily_is_Away/

 

[TheBryanJZX90]

I'm just going to put this out there, but I'm pretty sure I was the first person on AIM to use a double zero after my username instead of a bunch of random numbers or 69 or 420

 

[ViciousDS]

Man......AIM was huge back in the day. Everyone at some point had done the AOL trial.....

Man that was during my Roman arena online mmo days lol

 

[Zubz]

Man, I'm going to miss those gaudy text highlights.

 

[Earthbound64]

I'm just going to put this out there, but I'm pretty sure I was the first person on AIM to use a double zero after my username instead of a bunch of random numbers or 69 or 420

I'm just going to put this out there, but unless you did it back in like 1994 I'm pretty sure you were not the first person to do that.
And as far as not just being "a bunch of random numbers or 69 or 420," I had a '1' at the end of my screen name in 1996.

 

[RoseBell69]

So that leaves me to ask... other than Skype and Discord, what other chatting messengers are there? Once AIM is obsolete, of course.

 

[CountAntonius]

So that leaves me to ask... other than Skype and Discord, what other chatting messengers are there? Once AIM is obsolete, of course.

Kik for Dik.

 

[Atom Heart Mother]

So that leaves me to ask... other than Skype and Discord, what other chatting messengers are there? Once AIM is obsolete, of course.

Discord, Skype, Kik, Whatsapp, Facebook, Telegram

 

[RoseBell69]

Kik for Dik.

Lol.

Discord, Skype, Kik, Whatsapp, Facebook, Telegram

I never heard of Kik.

Interesting.

 

[Not]

Holy fuck.

Well, I guess I knew it wouldn't be around forever.

Wow.

Wow.

 

[The Albatross]

Poor man's MSN.

Ghetto aim.

ICQ was the nerds aim. And MSN was like... Your friends younger sister or random TFC clanmate AIM.

 

[Giolon]

Man, I've had my screenname since 1995 or so. I'll be sad to see it go.