These days, there’s a million different ways to chat. Sliding into DMs, group texts, Slack channels, Facebook…

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Today is another sad day, a Friday like so many others save for one tear-jerking bit of news: AOL announced its…

In what feels like a death blow to everyone’s early-Aughts nostalgia, it looks like AOL will soon cut off…

It's a fact of life nowadays: you start coming up with usernames before you are mature enough to come up with…

No one likes spam. And no one should! Which is why the reported uptick in AIM spammers—thanks again for pulling…

A great collective whine is currently echoing across the interent as people find themselves locked out of their AIM…

Multiple outlets reported yesterday that AOL was potentially planning to kill off its AIM messaging platform. Today,…

For anyone inside the generation for which AOL was synonymous with the internet, and AIM was prerequisite to any soci…

A long time ago, when people dialed (as in telephones) into Unix machines in some closet or college campus, they…

AIM has risen like Lazarus. And don't think this will be a haphazard update either. AIM has been reimagined from the…

There's nothing better than showing up to work, signing into AIM, and engaging with a sexy stranger, right? Those…

You're working. A chat window pops open. It's your mom. "How are you today?" Another window fires; your roommate.…

Before Twitter was public, it was just an AIM hack on Jack Dorsey's pager.

After bowing down to Google Talk this week, AIM is effectively dead. Most buddy lists are ghost towns. Chatters…

The Vulcan mind meld between AIM and your Gmail buddies is in effect—though it doesn't appear to have been…

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…

So, AIM, the bloated bygone beast, has actually spawned a pretty terrific little blossom. Although only for DOUBLE…

Meebo, the king of iPhone messaging apps, just got a new update bringing fast app switching and support for the…

Today, Facebook is having an emergency meeting to discuss their site's privacy problem. But these instant messages,…