AOL Instant Messanger Discontinued 12/15/2017

[A Casual Fitz]

Just got the unfortunate email about this. It's like an old friend that moved away a long time ago that you don't have any contact with, but now you find out he's dying. No real reason to be sad but I kind of am anyway.

 

[Kaido]

Hah, wow. That brings back memories of QBasic programming & Counter-strike. Man, those were the days!

 

[FeuerFrei]

Verizon sure is making some changes at AOL.

 

[Fritzo]

I just told everyone on ICQ about this!

 

[rh71]

I just told everyone on ICQ about this!

My first thought!

 

[BudAshes]

Who would have guessed it still existed. It was pretty awesome in the 90's before cell phone texting though.

 

[RossMAN]

I just told everyone on ICQ about this!

I can still hear that "uh oh" or whatever sound, ICQ was awesome ... about 15 yrs ago.

 

[SKORPI0]

I still have my ICQ account 5064** active. Haven't used AOL Instant Messenger since the late '90s.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I remember when MSN got shut down, I was kinda sad, I still used it (via Pidgin) to chat with some friends, and also lot of internet friends where it was the only contact method I had. Then they pulled the plug so I lost contact with lot of those people. Mostly old guild members from UO and such.

Come to think of it, is there even any IM services left now? I guess there's FB, but I don't really count that one as FB is more of a family/IRL friend thing, you don't go giving that out to random internet people, typically.

 

[John Connor]

 

[John Connor]

I just told everyone on ICQ about this!

Shit... I used Telegram with whatsapp that got sent to instagram and Facebook, YO!

Thread theme song:

 

[John Connor]

I remember when MSN got shut down, I was kinda sad, I still used it (via Pidgin) to chat with some friends, and also lot of internet friends where it was the only contact method I had. Then they pulled the plug so I lost contact with lot of those people. Mostly old guild members from UO and such.

Come to think of it, is there even any IM services left now? I guess there's FB, but I don't really count that one as FB is more of a family/IRL friend thing, you don't go giving that out to random internet people, typically.

Same thing happened to me with MSN. I used Triilian though. Still use it today mostly for a Twitter feed on my desktop and E-mail alerts. I had a few good friends I met from England and Scotland playing Command & Conquer Generals Zero hour.

 

[BD231]

Thats how i met my first girlfriend, and soon after how i found out she was banging the mexican boy who lived right next door to her

 

[brianmanahan]

Hah, wow. That brings back memories of QBasic programming & Counter-strike. Man, those were the days!

lol i spent so much time in qbasic in the 90's

i wish i would have done something more productive and lucrative with my childhood

 

[Kaido]

Pidgin

Triilian

 

[lxskllr]

Come to think of it, is there even any IM services left now?

There's all kinds, but most of them aren't worth a shit. xmpp works just fine, and it works everywhere without using centralized spyware.

 

[ViRGE]

Aww.

I still use it. It's still the only open & robust IM network. Every other network is closed off with crappy proprietary clients.