AIM Will Finally Die Its Last Death Later This Year
Today is another sad day, a Friday like so many others save for one tear-jerking bit of news: AOL announced its Instant…
AIM Starts Killing Off the Apps That Actually Made It Good
In what feels like a death blow to everyone’s early-Aughts nostalgia, it looks like AOL will soon cut off third-party…
What Was Your Most Embarrassing Username?
It's a fact of life nowadays: you start coming up with usernames before you are mature enough to come up with…
Let's Just Enjoy the AIM Spambot Resurgence
No one likes spam. And no one should! Which is why the reported uptick in AIM spammers—thanks again for pulling…
Are You Part of Today's AIM Apocalypse? (Updated)
A great collective whine is currently echoing across the interent as people find themselves locked out of their AIM…
AIM: The Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Multiple outlets reported yesterday that AOL was potentially planning to kill off its AIM messaging platform. Today,…
AIM Is (Unofficially) Dead (Updated)
For anyone inside the generation for which AOL was synonymous with the internet, and AIM was prerequisite to any social…
The Simple Unix Command That Gave Birth To Social Networking
A long time ago, when people dialed (as in telephones) into Unix machines in some closet or college campus, they used a…
AIM Is Back From the Dead, but Will Your Old Buddies Sign Back On?
AIM has risen like Lazarus. And don't think this will be a haphazard update either. AIM has been reimagined from the…
My Morning with a Robot Sex Worker
There's nothing better than showing up to work, signing into AIM, and engaging with a sexy stranger, right? Those are…
When Chat Attacks: How To Instant Message Without Wasting Your Day or Being a Jerk
You're working. A chat window pops open. It's your mom. "How are you today?" Another window fires; your roommate. "Bro,…
The Lost Origin of Twitter
Before Twitter was public, it was just an AIM hack on Jack Dorsey's pager.
Remember When AOL Instant Messenger Was Our Facebook?
After bowing down to Google Talk this week, AIM is effectively dead. Most buddy lists are ghost towns. Chatters fled…
AIM and Google Talk Crossover Is Now Active (OMG IM BFFs!)
The Vulcan mind meld between AIM and your Gmail buddies is in effect—though it doesn't appear to have been officially…
It's Official: This Is the New AIM
On Monday we reported on AIM's kind-of-sort-of-secret new video chat site. As of today, it's official, and it's just…
We Used AIM's Secret Video Chat Site, and It's Pretty Great
So, AIM, the bloated bygone beast, has actually spawned a pretty terrific little blossom. Although only for DOUBLE…
Meebo For iPhone Gets Retina Display Support and Multitasking
Meebo, the king of iPhone messaging apps, just got a new update bringing fast app switching and support for the iPhone…
19-Year-Old Facebook CEO Didn't Take Your Privacy Seriously, Either
Today, Facebook is having an emergency meeting to discuss their site's privacy problem. But these instant messages,…
AIM For iPad Is Free And Looks Decent
Everyone eventually trades up from the AIM app to IM+ or BeeJive or Meebo, but the free AIM app for the iPad actually…