https://www.jerseysmarts.com/2009/10/13/what-happened-to-aol-instant-messenger/ Joe Palazzolo's Blog Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:33:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.jerseysmarts.com/2009/10/13/what-happened-to-aol-instant-messenger/comment-page-1/#comment-39193 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:33:54 +0000 http://www.jerseysmarts.com/?p=3955#comment-39193 […] Remember this little yellow guy? Before BlackBerry Messenger, before Facebook and Twitter, before text messaging became mainstream, even before MySpace, the cool way for the post-adolescent crowd to communicate was to log onto AOL Instant Messenger, also known as AIM, a web-based instant messaging client created by America Online in the late 1990′s. Whether you had multiple or just one screen name, teenagers all around the country could not wait to get home from school so they could get onto their computers and “IM” their friends about…well…what just happened at school that very day. Similar to the way we can all waste away hours on Facebook, a lot of time was spent by teens messaging their friends using AIM, but why aren’t we using AIM now in 2011? What drove users away from this highly effective communication medium? Was AIM simply not ready to shift with the times? […]

]]> https://www.jerseysmarts.com/2009/10/13/what-happened-to-aol-instant-messenger/comment-page-1/#comment-25772 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:40:41 +0000 http://www.jerseysmarts.com/?p=3955#comment-25772 […] those days AOL Instant Messanger, AIM, was the hottest way to communicate.  That was the main reason dial-up went by the wayside! […]

]]> https://www.jerseysmarts.com/2009/10/13/what-happened-to-aol-instant-messenger/comment-page-1/#comment-4896 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:32:41 +0000 http://www.jerseysmarts.com/?p=3955#comment-4896 […] on this topic.Powered by WP Greet BoxLike I’ve been writing about lately, I’ve been deleting software programs and removing online services that are, essentially, unnecessary to me at this point. I’ve […]

]]> https://www.jerseysmarts.com/2009/10/13/what-happened-to-aol-instant-messenger/comment-page-1/#comment-4882 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:32:24 +0000 http://www.jerseysmarts.com/?p=3955#comment-4882 […] the same time period where I’ve essentially decided that I want to strip my computer of all non-essential software and remove myself from superfluous websites. Frankly, since I started this stripping down process, […]

]]> https://www.jerseysmarts.com/2009/10/13/what-happened-to-aol-instant-messenger/comment-page-1/#comment-4598 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:55:24 +0000 http://www.jerseysmarts.com/?p=3955#comment-4598 We basically blogged about the exact same thing yesterday, by chance… except the motivation for my post was brought on by me deciding to delete MySpace (which I remember you doing not too long ago).

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