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05-02-2017, 03:44 AM
Happy 20th birthday to my first true love: AOL's Instant Messenger
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Long before we had umpteen different online profiles, there was AIM.*
In the heady days of 1997, when AOL Instant Messenger came into the world, there was **thing else like it. Conceived within the hallowed halls of AOL, AIM introduced a large swath of early internet consumers to an idea that would be seized on by any number of multi-billion-dollar companies: You, but online.*
Twenty years later, there's still something about AIM. It came out just as average consumers were starting to get online en masse. And instead of presenting users with a**ther random message board where one might converse with strangers, AIM was about connecting with IRL friends through your curated "buddy list" — an idea so singular, AOL even patented it. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/01/aim-20th-anniversary/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Long before we had umpteen different online profiles, there was AIM.*
In the heady days of 1997, when AOL Instant Messenger came into the world, there was **thing else like it. Conceived within the hallowed halls of AOL, AIM introduced a large swath of early internet consumers to an idea that would be seized on by any number of multi-billion-dollar companies: You, but online.*
Twenty years later, there's still something about AIM. It came out just as average consumers were starting to get online en masse. And instead of presenting users with a**ther random message board where one might converse with strangers, AIM was about connecting with IRL friends through your curated "buddy list" — an idea so singular, AOL even patented it. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/01/aim-20th-anniversary/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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