AOL Instant Messenger to shut down after 20 years

The Next Web Friday, 15 December 2017 ()
AOL Instant Messenger to shut down after 20 yearsAOL today shutters AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) — its iconic chat service which debuted in 1997 and was popular in the ’00s. All good things come to an end. On Dec 15, we'll bid farewell to AIM. Thank you to all our users! #AIMemories https://t.co/b6cjR2tSuU pic.twitter.com/V09Fl7EPMx — AIM (@aim) October 6, 2017 Michael Albers, VP of Communications Product at Oath — the Verizon subsidiary which owns both AOL and Yahoo — said in a Tumblr post that he understands how important AIM was to many people: You likely remember the CD, your first screenname, your carefully curated away messages, and how…

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 AOL Instant Messenger has officially signed off after 20 years. The program, which was launched in 1997, was the first mainstream chat service in the early days of the internet. Following the early 2000s, AIM took a nosedive with competing instant messaging apps and the rise in texting. In recent...