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AIM will shut down after 20 years

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Re: AIM will shut down after 20 years

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Post by aczerepinski »

empath75 wrote: post #28

5 years ago, aol still used aim internally for everything that people use slack for today. Group chats, bots, notifications for builds, etc, etc. Then gradually individual teams picked up slack and within maybe 18 months, we went from 100% aim to a gigantic corporate slack team. That was the end of AIM, I think. Aol and yahoo both use gmail internally so I suspect they’re going to shitcan their email services eventua…

Sorry to reply with an off topic question but do you still work at AOL? If so, do you think there’s any chance AOL would consider allowing passwords longer than 16 characters? I only use AOL for junk/spam mail but even in that instance would prefer to use a strong password. When you see the “password too long” error message it’s easy to worry that the password is being stored plain text in some space constrained column.

Re: AIM will shut down after 20 years

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Post by neves »

Just other day I heard a music that told "I would ICQ you". I laugh that when the music was composed, the author wanted to look modern. There's another one that mentions Orkut. Today nobody understand them.

Lesson: don't mention your favorit tech if you want your music to last.

Re: AIM will shut down after 20 years

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

dasil003 wrote: post #30
bloaf wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was text messaging before everyone had a computer in their pockets.

Not SMS? Funny how quickly the iPhone has erased the memory of earlier mobile technology. SMS is not only where the term text messaging comes from, but it's older than AIM, older than MSN, older than ICQ.

I didn't get a cell phone until I think 2005. By that time, I had been using ICQ and AIM for over 5 years.

SMS may have existed before ICQ/AIM/etc, but it didn't get used frequently until the mid 00's.

Re: AIM will shut down after 20 years

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Post by 4ad »

oraguy wrote: post #150
mc32 wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And to think corps used to use Zimbra for email, which at one point was owned by Yahoo!

The entire Oracle company still uses Zimbra for email.

It’s the worst piece of software I ever used. Worst than Lotus notes, worse than Eclipse. It’s the only software that genuinely makes me angry.

Re: AIM will shut down after 20 years

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Post by IncRnd »

OMG!!! How will I log onto the Internet without AIM???

This is terrible! If a VC purchased AIM they could integrate the Internet with a blockchain, preserving it forever. Why let the Internet die without adding the double sha security that comes with bitcoin continuous integration?

It is extremely shortsighted not to use ethereum gas to save AIM. Smart contracts would definitely get AIM used by the entire startup community.

/sarc

Re: AIM will shut down after 20 years

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Post by chatmasta »

jandrese wrote: post #54
dbbk wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SMS was (and is) limited to 160 characters and costs you money to send each one. Not comparable to AIM.

SMS had the dubious distinction of being the most expensive way to send data outside of non-commercial satellite and exotic military technologies. I can remember fees of $.35 for 160 7-bit characters worth of data, using bandwidth that was otherwise just going to waste. Carriers got so greedy with SMS.

That comes to about $2.1 million per gigabyte. But it's also a bit of an unfair comparison since one user consumes far less bandwidth using SMS vs general data.

Re: AIM will shut down after 20 years

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Post by microcolonel »

empath75 wrote: post #28

5 years ago, aol still used aim internally for everything that people use slack for today. Group chats, bots, notifications for builds, etc, etc. Then gradually individual teams picked up slack and within maybe 18 months, we went from 100% aim to a gigantic corporate slack team. That was the end of AIM, I think. Aol and yahoo both use gmail internally so I suspect they’re going to shitcan their email services eventua…

> That was the end of AIM, I think. Aol and yahoo both use gmail internally so I suspect they’re going to shitcan their email services eventually, too.

Man, that would be an absolute disaster. I have so many contacts who I can only through Yahoo and AOL email addresses. I guess I should reach out to all of them before they are disappeared. ;- )

Re: AIM will shut down after 20 years

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Post by sireat »

empath75 wrote: post #28

5 years ago, aol still used aim internally for everything that people use slack for today. Group chats, bots, notifications for builds, etc, etc. Then gradually individual teams picked up slack and within maybe 18 months, we went from 100% aim to a gigantic corporate slack team. That was the end of AIM, I think. Aol and yahoo both use gmail internally so I suspect they’re going to shitcan their email services eventua…

That is somewhat shocking that yahoo uses gmail internally.

What happened to eating your own dogfood?

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