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In 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!
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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?!
While I haven't used AIM in ages, I remember it fondly. There was a cool addon/hack for AIM that gave it more functionality such as combining all chats into one window and the ability to adjust the windows so that you could see through them. Does anybody know what I'm talking about? If you do, do you remember the name of the addon/hack?
Unfortunately 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…
Something 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.
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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...
A part of me can't wait to see the President whose entire life can be cherry-picked from various servers and datacenters.
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I actually took screenshots of my buddy list for just this reason. I will eventually put it into a text document. Seeing all my friends’ old screen names brought back so many memories. Was well worth the ~15 minutes it took me.
upload it to Google Drive for easy OCR to a doc https://support.google.com/drive/answer/176692?co=GENIE.Plat...
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I expect it was thought through, and the thought was "a few hundred thousand people use this service still, it's running under one employee's desk* and is completely unfunded, no effort above the minimum is to be expended." *Not sure if this was explicitly said or someone's joking claim during a past discussion of the shutdown.
The final user numbers were way less than you would guess. It was a service built to handle tens of millions of users serving thousands. Scaling down that much is as labour intensive as scaling up. It's not just a launching all the services on a handful of VMs. The time had passed to make it a WhatsApp etc competitor.