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"Dear AIM user, We see that you've used AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) in the past, so we wanted to let you know that AIM will be discontinued and will no longer work as of December 15, 2017. Before December 15, you can continue to use the service. After December 15, you will no longer have access to AIM and your data will be deleted. If you use an @aim.com email address, your email account will not be affected and you will still be able to send and receive email as usual. We've loved working on AIM for you. From setting the perfect away message to that familiar ring of an incoming chat, AIM will always have a special place in our hearts. As we move forward, all of us at AOL (now Oath) are excited to continue building the next generation of iconic brands and life-changing products for users around the world. You can visit our FAQ to learn more. Thank you for being an AIM user. Sincerely, The AOL Instant Messenger team" I refuse to join Facebook for messaging.
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RIP the I'm Lonely Come Talk To Me thread
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Oct 6, 2017 18:32
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BovineFury posted:"Dear AIM user, Good news discord exists
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Oct 6, 2017 18:33
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Wasn't AIM originally just a front to disguise the reconstituted HYDRA?
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fruit on the bottom posted:Wasn't AIM originally just a front to disguise the reconstituted HYDRA? HYDRA is actually Facebook.
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Funny that this happened right around the time AOL decided that they are charging $5 a month just to use the AOL desktop software (yes even if you are using it with your cable internet). I predict absolutely nobody will be using anything AOL related after this. A perfect time to mention what a monumental piece of poo poo AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is (but not for AOL-related reasons).
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Oct 6, 2017 18:41
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r.i.p. my ancient-rear end AIM account. Finally stopped using it this year when they ended third-party support, and the one friend I still talked to on it switched to Discord.
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Mega64 posted:r.i.p. my ancient-rear end AIM account. Finally stopped using it this year when they ended third-party support, and the one friend I still talked to on it switched to Discord. but yeah only about <4 out of 400 contacts are even on anymore, and only 2 are friends i talk to regularly. idk what we'll go to, we also have gchat but it kinda loving sucks and skype is just bloated lovely chat for family and it's awful. maybe we'll give discord a try
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Oct 6, 2017 18:48
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shutup nerds (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Oct 6, 2017 18:49
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How will this impact the AOL links in our SA profiles?
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Oct 6, 2017 18:52
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whats hydra
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Oct 6, 2017 18:54
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how am I going to cyber Cali girls now
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Oct 6, 2017 18:55
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Ein cooler Typ posted:how am I going to cyber Cali girls now irc.dal.net #cyber
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Oct 6, 2017 18:56
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I never figured out how to get IRC to work
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Oct 6, 2017 19:15
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modok should have been a better ceo imo
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Oct 6, 2017 19:27
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i'm still on aim, IMMA
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Oct 6, 2017 20:28
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I wouldn't worry, the last time we shut down we just reformed with blue beekeepers suits and guns that shot different colored lasers. It's just one of those things in military industrial complex jobs.
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Oct 6, 2017 20:39
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I am not even sure how AOL has managed to survive this long while being completely irrelevant. Are just a bunch of old people still using it or something? I don't even know what AOL does anymore?
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Oct 6, 2017 21:04
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Xaris posted:they didn't end third-party support, they made some minor changes but trillian/instantbird/pidgin et all work. i'm still logged in over instantbird and my friend uses trillian (lol lifetime sub) Cool, time to go back to AIM then.
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Oct 6, 2017 21:13
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ICQ still exists. Why would anyone need anything but ICQ and IRC. 50 year old greybeards have the best conversation anyway.
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:I am not even sure how AOL has managed to survive this long while being completely irrelevant. Are just a bunch of old people still using it or something? I don't even know what AOL does anymore? aim has nothing to do with aol though, don't confuse the two.
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Oct 6, 2017 21:30
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My wife's best friend who's a 37 year old multi-millionaire still uses AOL
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Oct 6, 2017 21:34
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Are all of our AOL Keywords safe, or will they be deleted, too?
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Oct 6, 2017 21:37
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i wonder how much they charged for aol keywords. to separate the pros from the amateurs.
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FaradayCage posted:
This game owned so hard and they hosed it all up 
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Xaris posted:they didn't end third-party support, they made some minor changes but trillian/instantbird/pidgin et all work. i'm still logged in over instantbird and my friend uses trillian (lol lifetime sub) Telegram? Slack and Discord are kinda bloated. ICQ's still around if you just want text chat. I miss the days when you could get on multiple networks with the same client; now you're forced to use Slack and Discord and FB Messenger and Telegram all at the same time. Not like the good old days when Pidgin would log in to anything people chatted on.
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Oct 6, 2017 21:55
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lol they merged AOL and yahoo together into "oath"
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Oct 6, 2017 23:14
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it's fuckin dumb. Let me pay your $10 server fee yearly so everybody can still use a completely outdated instant messenger that's 20 years old that a surprising amount of people still use. Like drat.
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That Robot posted:lol they merged AOL and yahoo together into "oath" Cut off one limb, two more take its place. Hail Hydra!
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Oct 6, 2017 23:20
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hey OP join the good guys at IRL Stark Industries
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Oct 6, 2017 23:27
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I should probably see if any of my old AIM Friends are on. Never really felt a great urge to reconnect and catch up with those losers, but it won't be an option at all soon, so, yeah.
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Blurry Gray Thing posted:I should probably see if any of my old AIM Friends are on. I tried this a few weeks ago and there was like 7 people online out of 300. 5 of them were people I know in real life but it had a little cell phone icon next to their screen name so I assume they have some AIM app installed on their phone that they aren't even aware of. The other 2 I have no recollection of who they are
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Oct 7, 2017 00:52
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how ever will the spurned high school girls cry about boys to their best guy (only a) friend
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Oct 7, 2017 00:56
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I've... read things that you wouldn't believe... drunken confessions from 3am benders... internet arguments that ended real life friendships... all of those moments lost, like bits in the interweb tubes. Time to shut down
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Oct 7, 2017 01:31
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I wish I had saved all my AIM logs from middle school & high school Wait...nevermind, I don't want to see that poo poo
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Oct 7, 2017 01:41
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Aw man, AIM was the first tool I used to create a socially successful avatar of myself on the internet.
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I used to type in Chiller font in AIM because it expressed the darkness in my teenage soul
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Oct 7, 2017 02:20
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LGD posted:hey OP join the good guys at IRL Stark Industries Tony Stark is a super villain, so checks out.
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LGD posted:hey OP join the good guys at IRL Stark Industries If I remember the first movie right, Stark Industries was a super corrupt hosed up weapons manufacturer illegally selling arms to terrorists so yeah checks out.
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