How Aim Taught The Internet To Chat

If you were an net personification astir nan move of nan century, there's a bully chance I could play a one-second agelong sound of a doorway opening and memories would instantly travel flooding back. Memories of moving location from schoolhouse and logging onto AOL Instant Messenger to chat pinch your friends aliases your crush. Maybe memories of really AIM changed nan measurement your institution did business. Certainly memories of your aged surface name, and nan angsty opus lyrics you put into your distant message.

AIM was, for a time, nan astir important chat app connected nan internet. It besides hardly managed to proceed to exist. The app was created by a semi-rogue squad wrong of AOL, and …

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