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Iron Prince posted:
That cuts deep bro I did this all the time to my unrequited love from my art class hoping she'd get the message  When I got invited to her birthday party I showed up 30 minutes before anyone else and bought her flowers and some chocolates, no one else bought any gifts at all and I looked like a clingy longing creeper God drat I was so hopeless The few times she did message me on aim out of the blue was the highlight of my junior year *door open sound* oh my loving god she's online feel free to call me a gay fag now
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I still use AIM, but only to talk to one specific friend. Quite a drastic change from my high school days (early 2000's) when my taskbar would overload with flashing IM windows. people will say texting and smartphones killed IM clients, but I think Facebook chat took the first major blow. thinking about this makes me really, really nostalgic for the pre-Facebook, pre-smartphone era internet.
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aol got me a handjob once
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Orange Red Bull posted:aol got me a handjob once What was his screen name
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safetyStanddown posted:Because it was mostly middle school and high school kids using it at the time, along with some (but far from all) college aged adults. The only people on AIM older than college age were "computer nerds" (or just technologically literate adults, really) who were still a minority back in that day. No way man everybody (everybody, even the popular girls, etc) had AIM. In fact you were kind of a dweeb if you didnt have it, because it meant your family was too poor to own a computer (which was a bigger deal at the time). What confuses me most is how fast it fell off the radar considering there was nothing even remotely as good replacing it for a while after. Facebook chat came into the picture way after AIM basically died. Nerds used ICQ. *Select all *Invite to chatroom *Spam BUTTS BUTTS BUTTS to the hottest girls in school even though you've never said a word to them in real life edit: you were also kind of a nerd if you used AIM+ to have multiple accounts to do wacky things to classmates, but secretly everybody did this so just dont get caught
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I could have sworn AIM used to be available as part of Gmail chat but it's not there anymore. Rip middle school chat handle.
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OK I signed in with the app and it still has my username but literally everybody is offline and probably hasn't been on in a decade.
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notZaar posted:OK I signed in with the app and it still has my username but literally everybody is offline and probably hasn't been on in a decade. The only people I ever see signed on have a cell phone icon next to their name, so I assume it's just friends of mine who have the app on their phone and don't know it runs in the background.
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i liked aim
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notZaar posted:I could have sworn AIM used to be available as part of Gmail chat but it's not there anymore. Rip middle school chat handle. You used to be able to sign in through it but either Google or aol pulled that plug like 5 years back or something
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I remember when people's email would have a signature that included their home phone, cell phone AIM handle, Yahoo Messenger handle, and email address. I loved aim but I also liked the mspaint style yahoo messenger window where the two of you could draw stuff that showed up on each other's screen.
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Jul 26, 2016 04:42
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AIM and Yahoo Messenger being important messaging apps for the oil, gas, and shipping industry is funny to me. Sadly no one uses ICQ
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Jul 26, 2016 04:44
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They don't keep records of that poo poo do they? I feed badly for hornybutts nowadays, butt
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CloFan posted:DeadAIM was the superior client by far this is a fuckin fact.
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SaltLick posted:AIM and Yahoo Messenger being important messaging apps for the oil, gas, and shipping industry is funny to me. Sadly no one uses ICQ It is funny when you stop to consider that our critical infrastructure is manned by middle aged out of touch idiots.
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:The only people I ever see signed on have a cell phone icon next to their name, so I assume it's just friends of mine who have the app on their phone and don't know it runs in the background. This means that long ago they set up their account to forward messages sent to that screen name as SMS message to a cell phone number they provided.
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Jul 26, 2016 18:37
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One of my friends went through like 10 usernames in six years or so, that monster.
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Jul 26, 2016 18:53
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Kids today will never know the joy/absolute horror of messaging random chicks based only on screenname and whatever vague interest you picked in the (oft broken) topic selector. Now you know everything about a person up to and including how many pieces of corn stud their poo poo on an average bowel movement. Sad!
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Jul 31, 2016 17:56
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don't piss me off or i'll punt you
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Jul 31, 2016 18:03
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MSN was the poo poo in 2004 except for the anxiety of waiting for cute girls to log in
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notZaar posted:I could have sworn AIM used to be available as part of Gmail chat but it's not there anymore. Rip middle school chat handle. Early Facebook had an option to search for friends in your AIM friends list.
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SaltLick posted:AIM and Yahoo Messenger being important messaging apps for the oil, gas, and shipping industry is funny to me. Sadly no one uses ICQ The military uses classified IRC all the time, or used to. I'd be watching 15 rooms at once
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