AOL announced Friday that it is discontinuing its pioneering Instant Messenger chat platform after 20 years of service. “AIM tapped into new digital technologies and ignited a cultural shift, but the ...

Online chat applications will continue, but one of its first forms will be dead on Dec. 15, 2017. AOL wrote Friday on its AOL Instant Messenger page that after 20 years of running, AIM will shut down.

Major internet service provider AOL was dominating the market in the 1990s, not long after its founding in 1983. In that decade, AOL programmers worked on an app that had the ability to send instant ...

Before there was Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest, there was AOL Instant Messenger. In fact, you could argue Facebook was conceived on AIM. My how times have changed. Between January 2011 and January ...

This article is from the archive of our partner . What do we do when Gchat is down? We freak. Over and over again. We yell at the top of our lungs, which hurts, sort of, because we rarely speak aloud ...

TL;DR: AOL, a pioneer of 1990s dial-up internet and instant messaging, will discontinue its dial-up service on September 30, 2025, ending 34 years of legacy connectivity. Despite broadband advances, ...