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AIM will be discontinued today
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Re: AIM will be discontinued today
#82Unfortunately you are not able to save or export your Buddy List. Your data associated with AIM will be deleted after December 15, 2017. Yes, you can manually save images and files to your computer until the morning of December 15, 2017. Whatever you thought of AIM, it's stuff like this that makes you realize just how important software freedom is. Insane that there is just no way at all , without outright hacking th…
I, for one, am happy to see all my old AIM conversations deleted and lost forever.
Holy shit, emphatically this, yes. Especially the conversations with exes.
Re: AIM will be discontinued today
#83Unfortunately you are not able to save or export your Buddy List. Your data associated with AIM will be deleted after December 15, 2017. Yes, you can manually save images and files to your computer until the morning of December 15, 2017. Whatever you thought of AIM, it's stuff like this that makes you realize just how important software freedom is. Insane that there is just no way at all , without outright hacking th…
I, for one, am happy to see all my old AIM conversations deleted and lost forever.
I didn't even consider that. All those shitty things I said when I was a teenager...
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#84Truly sad. So much of my young social life was experienced through AIM. Screen names are still part of the identity of some of my friends. For some folks that have already passed, our last conversations are on AIM. Don't know what else to say, but it definitely feels like a link to another era of my life is fading away. Nothing is permanent. RIP running man!
> Truly sad. So much of my young social life was experienced through AIM.
This could be read in more than one way. I agree it is sad.
Re: AIM will be discontinued today
#85Something I'll miss about AIM and older chat clients is how compact they were. Most of these newer chat programs seem to assume you're going to have their application take up the entire screen.
One thing I hate about most IM clients is the buddy/friend/roster list runs in a separate window from actual chat sessions.
I much prefer the one window paradigm of IRC.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not the same kind , though the difference was subtle, and maybe not an important distinction to most people. In ICQ, you sent discrete messages back and forth. You could (I believe) look at the last message while replying, but you didn't have a chat history integrated into the same window where you replied. I used both ICQ and AIM in the '90s and early 2000s, even talking to the same people, and the interactions felt…
I still have my ICQ number burned into my brain. There are other, more important, numbers I should be remembering and at times cannot, but that ICQ number is there.
Tangent for UK people: I have the emergency services number from The IT Crowd burned into my brain too: 01189998819991197253
WHY?!
Re: AIM will be discontinued today
#87You see what happens when you repeal title II!?!!
too soon?
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#88In 1998, I built a computer (her first) for my girlfriend so that she and I could chat while I was at work. We've been married 18 years now.
Thanks for the memories, AIM!
Re: AIM will be discontinued today
#89meanwhile slack grows and requires a much heavier desktop client, and people use fb chat like wildfire clearly the issue is product mismanagement rather than cultural shifts away from 'this type of service'
I don't think it was mismanagement - chat followed where people stored their identities online. One's online identity was for many years their aol screen name - now, for many, it's facebook.
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#90RIP On a side note, it would have been great if rather than discontinue AIM, they open sourced it and put it in the hands of the community. It feels somewhat wasteful to close the doors on such an iconic piece of software.
It takes effort (ie $$) to open source software including making sure it doesn’t include libraries or other code licensed from third parties.