I wish I could be omniscient for a few minutes just to know what happened to all the people I've A/S/L'd during childhood. Or maybe I don't want to know - I imagine some of them probably died from old age.
AIM will be discontinued today
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#142I wish I could be omniscient for a few minutes just to know what happened to all the people I've A/S/L'd during childhood. Or maybe I don't want to know - I imagine some of them probably died from old age.
You will be surprised how many died young. :-(
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Most modern audio players have the same issue. WinAmp/XMMS took up very little of your screen, while most modern players will assume that full screen is what you want.
That's the reason I'm still using Winamp. Its aged surprisingly well and it has more features than a lot of modern media players.
It really whips the llama's ass.
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#144Remembers 90's when I would hooked on AIM to chat and make friends....make me cry
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#145RIP. Browsing friends' creative AIM away messages were the precursor to that Snapchat status(?) feature I hear about.
AIM Status messages were the original inspiration for Twitter, then twttr. See : https://www.flickr.com/photos/jackdorsey/182613360 - twttr sketch by founder Jack Dorsey.
I guess he never fingered a .plan.
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#146Goodbye. :( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Z2CklSxM0 Since everyone is sharing their AIM memories: When I was in college (1995-1998), AIM was the #1 way to flirt with people. Today the kids worry about whether they got a like or not. Back then, you'd sit and stare at your buddy list waiting for that person you liked to come online so you could say something witty, and then stew with worry if they didn't respond bu…
I was under the impression that in 1995-1998, flirting irl was still number 1.
Maybe in some places for some people, but for us Berkeley nerds it was definetly online. Of course you had to flirt in person to get their screen name.
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#147As of yesterday, they were sending an announcement every 5 minutes about the impending shutdown. Now when you try to connect, they send the announcement and then disconnect you. I guess they want to see 0 traffic before they pull the plug.
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This is ridiculous FUD, you're not compromising anybody's privacy by letting google drive do an OCR for you. The chance is extremely remote that there would somehow be a leak of the information to malicious parties or the like out of Google. Is this is all over the possibility of their advertising engine seeing keywords and giving you an ad based on it? Even if that's the case then that's not a privacy violation, no…
>Even if that's the case then that's not a privacy violation, no human ever can see how that's associated with a specific identity How can no human see the data that Google has? Google is not a magical place where machines cannot be compromised. >To my knowledge there has never been a hack of Google's data or any leak connecting any user's identity to PII. The Snowden leaks say otherwise. http://www.slate.com/blogs/f…
OK, that's the NSA, you can assume they know everything already. And in this case, the article mentions Yahoo, which is where the information was in the first place.
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#149Goodbye. :( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Z2CklSxM0 Since everyone is sharing their AIM memories: When I was in college (1995-1998), AIM was the #1 way to flirt with people. Today the kids worry about whether they got a like or not. Back then, you'd sit and stare at your buddy list waiting for that person you liked to come online so you could say something witty, and then stew with worry if they didn't respond bu…
I was under the impression that in 1995-1998, flirting irl was still number 1.
You couldn’t scale like you did with AIM.
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#150I wish I could be omniscient for a few minutes just to know what happened to all the people I've A/S/L'd during childhood. Or maybe I don't want to know - I imagine some of them probably died from old age.
Checking in! I was a huge AIM user. I've had the same screenname since I was 12. Now the only two left in my circle who use it are me and my wife.
I'm really nostalgic about AIM. I met a lot of really cool people on there, but its time is definitely passed. Luckily having used Pidgin for years will make the transition for gchat or something similar pretty seamless.
Still sad, though.