![]() ![]() We’re all too internet famous these days. My dear friend Ryan appropriately pointed out that Rapportive completely defeats this now that they show you social profiles right alongside emails. Remember doing that? Listing all of your friends in your buddy profile? And then if you left someone out they’d be sooooo mad.Īge, sex, location. Choosing the right order of initials of your best friends to feature in your buddy profile. AIM was the first to ask “What are you doing?” And sometimes they got the most literal answer – “Away”… “Brb”… When you finally got broadband, you were always signed in, and always had an away message up.ģ. I mean do we go for the passive aggressive Avril Lavigne chorus line or really-not-as-obscure-as-you-were-hoping-it’d-be Mae reference that absolutely no one would get. ![]() Finding the best lyrics for your away message. Top 10 Things We’ll Miss About AIMĪppropriately, I posed this question to my Facebook friends: “What are the top things you miss about AIM?”ġ. It prepared, or prompted, or inspired us to work for the internet as community managers and developers, with our multiple monitors and browsers and dubstep and all. Homework wasn’t so bad after all – and we expected or hoped for the same from our real jobs. I’d go so far as to say this – the activity of AIM helped groom a generation of digital kids, multi-taskers who did homework with multiple chat windows open plus a textbook plus music playing. I’m sure it’s what Mark Zuckerburg was logged into as he crushed code growing up as merely a boy nerd. What if AIM actually went away? I mean, really: AIM was kind of like our first social network. So while AOL will still exist, no further growth or development will be made. ![]() Outside of maintainence, the application’s 40 employees in charge of development have been let go. Two weeks ago, the internet unanimously barely blinked its eyes with the news that AOL had chosen to kill off AIM, the once-prominent instant messaging service. ![]()
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