AOL DIED.

[blueraven]

Gordtherogue has left the building. Goodbye.

Also, Discuss.

[Arkhan Asylum]

THOSE PIECE OF SHIT TRAITOR FUCKING CUNTS I HATE THEM.

[turboswimbz]

I shall miss AIM.  so many times spent on the AIM.

[Arkhan Asylum]

i dont even get why they are killing it. 

its still a good chat program.

[seieienbu]

I had friends from highschool in the 90s that I only ever communicated with over AIM.  I was on it for 2 decades.  I suppose it seems a little bit weird to never log on again.

[esteban]

It's all a blur. I remember using ICQ, Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft and ____ clients at home/school/work...it was so disjointed, but I think most of us just accepted it...but I remember I would automatically log into certain clients (muscle memory autopilot), only to realize that the person I wanted was on another service. So annoying. Or that the conversation I wanted to reference was on a different service.

At work, it was the worst...because it was confusing  (my employer, for example, should have mandated one central avenue of discussion).

The amount of redundancy/miscommunication/inefficiency was hilarious.

Email would have been a better solution for 99% of the projects...but it was so trendy to (poorly) incorporate IM into the workflow back then.

[Nazi NecroPhile]

I was surprised to hear it wasn't killed years ago.

[Arkhan Asylum]

Of all the chat programs, AIM was still really good.

YIM took a shit and now it's just wedged into yahoo mail
MSN turned into Windows Live turned into Skype and they fucking messed Skype up as a result
AOL was just the same as it ever was up until HEY LETS KILL IT.


I use LINE now mostly.   

[turboswimbz]

Agreed. Aim was still freaking simple.  the other have become messed up

Skype is all right I use it for basic video needs.  but I only have it as a left over

I've been using Whatsapp for general messaging with people now. (good international option) Discord is alight too and simple still, but also somewhat annoying.  I am using it only for the #PCFX chat

For the most part though general text messaging through the basic phone apps fills any needs these messaging programs once did.

[DragonmasterDan]

Of all the chat programs, AIM was still really good.

YIM took a shit and now it's just wedged into yahoo mail
MSN turned into Windows Live turned into Skype and they fucking messed Skype up as a result
AOL was just the same as it ever was up until HEY LETS KILL IT.


I use LINE now mostly.   

Yahoo! messenger I was actively using up until they just integrated it into Yahoo mail. People I had been chatting with since the 90s were still actively using it, writing and conversing.

AIM turned into a graveyard of inactive accounts. People permanently signed in somewhere on some device, never checking messages or replying while hundreds of accounts sat permanently offline. Occasionally I'd use it but few people would ever write me and if I wrote people it was unlikely that I'd see a reply.

MSN messenger was mostly used to communicate with foreigners. I think the America in America Online Instant Messeger scared off everyone outside of the US.

I don't even think it's worth mentioning why I no longer use ICQ if it's alive at all, but at one point it was a big thing.

[Arkhan Asylum]

Ah yes, ICQ.

We used that for UO.

That's the only place where you'll meet enough aspies that will keep track of user NUMBERS.



Skype now sucks because of the way Microsoft devoured and converted accounts.


If you had an MSN and Skype account that used the same e-mail, they fucked it up.   It merged horribly and is all fucked.

I had to argue with them for hours.  They actually sent me gift cards (lolwtf) in the mail for wasting so much of my time.

[bob]

i miss the 40 Hours Free AOL discs from the internet good 'ol days.
that was like natural progression from columbia house.  rope the "customer" in without the expensive overhead of hard goods.

[SignOfZeta]

Ah yes, ICQ.

We used that for UO.

That's the only place where you'll meet enough aspies that will keep track of user NUMBERS.



Skype now sucks because of the way Microsoft devoured and converted accounts.


If you had an MSN and Skype account that used the same e-mail, they fucked it up.   It merged horribly and is all fucked.

I had to argue with them for hours.  They actually sent me gift cards (lolwtf) in the mail for wasting so much of my time.

I'm having a really hard time understanding how MS makes money on anything but military contracts.

[bob]

Ah yes, ICQ.

We used that for UO.

That's the only place where you'll meet enough aspies that will keep track of user NUMBERS.



Skype now sucks because of the way Microsoft devoured and converted accounts.


If you had an MSN and Skype account that used the same e-mail, they fucked it up.   It merged horribly and is all fucked.

I had to argue with them for hours.  They actually sent me gift cards (lolwtf) in the mail for wasting so much of my time.

I'm having a really hard time understanding how MS makes money on anything but military contracts.

or any other corporation that licenses them.
"big" america is so far behind the times, so many are still running XP and paying for it with zero support

[xcrement5x]

I still have my AOL email address actually, it was my AIM name for a very long time but at least email still works.

[jtucci31]

Tomorrow I'll wait until my mom is off the phone before going on the internet, in honor of AIM.

RIP my Rolling Stones "Start me Up" jingle whenever I logged on or sent a message or whatever other dumb purpose I used it for.

[Nazi NecroPhile]

You can say it was for porn.  We understand.

[seieienbu]

Just for fun I tried to log in, AIM logged me out immediately saying "Username logged in at another location" or something.  I wonder if I've just been idling online somewhere sending spam messages from some hacked account to the 3 people I knew who were still online for the last few years.

[turboswimbz]

I hope you have been spamming. lol.

I think I read it's officially going offline sometime in December?

[Arkhan Asylum]

I called them assholes in their e-mail about this

and on twitter

lol

fucking sons of fuckingbastardbitches

[blueraven]

Yeah the official shutdown date is December 17th.

ICQ I used mostly with my D&D and linux friends... and later for early WOW.
AIM was just always around...
YM was probably the most stable of all... It was always still running when the others would have outages or shutdown.
MSM I only used for work and found it to be redundant.

I was running about 5 incarnations of Trillian when having 4 separate messengers open became infuriating. There was another aggregator message program before that... I actually paid the $10 for it, but I don't remember what it was called.

The cool thing about Trillian was that It color coded each of the messengers with their respective logos int he beginning, Orange AIM, Red Yahoo, Blue MSN, Green ICQ, and Purple for the LAN; I think they got some cease-and-desist orders because version 2.5 replaced them all with dots.

I used it all the way up until the iPhone 2, they actually gave me a free app download f or being a loyal customer and I was active on AIM until about 2013.

...It was really 20 years ago that people were asking "Wanna Cyber". I'm sure everyone really remembers that.

P.S.

For some reason the thread made me think of Chat Roulette, and all of the shenanigans that happened there.

[Arkhan Asylum]

I saw all kinds of titties on AOL when I was like 12.

I'm sure those ladies should have been sent to prison for sending me stuff, but whatever, lolol.

[Gredler]

Dude the gif chatroom, waiting to get random pics in the email then spending hours downloading them. Prime time compared to blurred skinimax tho

[turboswimbz]

I saw all kinds of titties on AOL when I was like 12.

I'm sure those ladies should have been sent to prison for sending me stuff, but whatever, lolol.

Dem where simpler times.  some of those boobies were pretty sweet.

[xcrement5x]

Dude the gif chatroom, waiting to get random pics in the email then spending hours downloading them. Prime time compared to blurred skinimax tho

Oh man, that was me too.  I had mountains of overwritten AOL diskettes with PICS on them.

[Arkhan Asylum]

REALPLAYER LIVESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[blueraven]

Also when was the last time you heard "wanna cyber"

I think for me it was like 1998

[Arkhan Asylum]

me and you basically cyber all the time.

[NightWolve]

End of an era, so long AIM...

[wildfruit]

I had aol on dial up til we got cable. I used to use aol radio non stop. I think it streamed off Sirius / xm.

[turboswimbz]

Also when was the last time you heard "wanna cyber"

I think for me it was like 1998

2004 ish. basically, just before "sexting" photos and video became easy enough for everyone. but I feel like even then I was like huh? people still use that?

[turboswimbz]

[Arkhan Asylum]

You weren't fucking cool unless your monitor had speakers attached to it.

That was the most legit fuckin HELLYEAH shit ever.

[blueraven]

Also when was the last time you heard "wanna cyber"

I think for me it was like 1998

2004 ish. basically, just before "sexting" photos and video became easy enough for everyone. but I feel like even then I was like huh? people still use that? 

Yeah, that's basically identical to my experience.