10-06-2017, 09:01 AM | #1 | |
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AIM will shut down after 20 years
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10-06-2017, 10:37 AM | #2 |
Y'all need Jesus
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Oh well. I can't think of anyone who still uses it.
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Cat messenger was really the only product of America online that I ever used, and I used it Faithfully for well over a decade.
It's not surprising it's gone tits-up, what was the emergence of things like slack and Discord. Still, good times.
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10-06-2017, 11:29 AM | #4 |
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I never used this at all, but it's interesting to see it shut down. It seems all the oldest relics of the internet are being lost in time.
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10-06-2017, 11:38 AM | #5 |
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I went to log into it just now for fun to see if I had any new messages since not logging into it for 10+ years. It didn't recognize my E-mail address. *shrug*
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10-06-2017, 11:42 AM | #6 |
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Tis must have been an American thing since I've never used or heard of anyone I know irl using it. So it was like IRC and Messenger, pretty much?
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10-06-2017, 11:44 AM | #7 |
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It was (or became, at least?) like a hipper, trendier version of ICQ.
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10-06-2017, 11:44 AM | #8 |
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So what happens when all message boards/forums close down?
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10-06-2017, 11:47 AM | #9 |
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10-06-2017, 11:48 AM | #10 |
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They won't. What I see happening in the foreseeable future is things like message boards becoming completely integrated into Facebook. i.e., you can make a Facebook page for a thing, then create a message board structure like this.
As for vBulletin, or any other message board software company, even if they shut their doors tomorrow that has no bearing on anyone's installation of message boards, or install files.
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10-06-2017, 11:52 AM | #11 | |
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10-06-2017, 12:01 PM | #13 | |
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10-06-2017, 12:49 PM | #14 | |
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10-06-2017, 08:09 PM | #15 |
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Had many great times using the client but it's been like 7 or 8 years since I stopped using it. No biggie.
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10-06-2017, 08:28 PM | #16 |
Y'all need Jesus
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It's funny to see PlastronCafe and AndrewNDB still have links to AIM, MSN, and Yahoo on their accounts in this thread, haha.
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10-06-2017, 08:50 PM | #17 | |
See You Next Mission
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My God, I forgot all about AIM.
Those chat rooms AOL had back in the early 2000s had a sort of alluring and dangerous charm...I remember the news media's hysteria over online predators and the increasing proliferation of online porn videos. Good times.
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10-06-2017, 09:03 PM | #18 |
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I loved AIM but I mean last time I used it was literally a decade ago and by that time not many people used it, I remember logging in a few years ago, maybe 2010 or so when I was going through an old computer and trillion the program that let you use all those IM clients at once was installed so I checked to see whatsup and no one was online on any of them.
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10-07-2017, 03:10 AM | #19 |
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When texting became the norm, then FB instant messaging became an option on phone... AIM, YIM, ICQ all ceased to have any purpose, really.
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10-07-2017, 03:25 AM | #20 |
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I used to use both AIM and MSN in the past, but yeah, been superseded by many other methods now... mostly use iMessage and FB.
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