Whatever Happened to AOL Instant Messenger?
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I’m so glad I got to experience the beginning of AOL/AIM. It’s something I miss dearly. Seeing who can stay online the longest, chatting all night, the noises. Damn 😢
I remember staying up for hours every night talking on AIM with my friends, good times. Great stuff as always, keep it up!
Cheers, i felt the same!
Some of my best memories of the 00s were chatting and RPing on AIM, both in IM and the larger chat rooms. I still think it was a mistake for AOL to shut it down. If AIM were revived officially, I'd be back on in a heartbeat.
I never had the opportunity and same for MSN but now, I would be on it with using both of those if they ever made a comeback. I was lucky to even have a Yahoo e-mail and occasionally get on Yahoo Messenger but in the 2000s those were the Big 3 with messaging services on computers. However, I do have AIM, MSN, and Yahoo sounds on my phone for ringtones.
I was a MSN boy myself, but all those apps of the time were almost magical in a way. They feel more like a Metaverse of sort than any current efforts to make a scifi metaverse digital utopia. And as you mention Mark Zuckerberg, maybe that feeling of living a "virtual life" that IRC, MSN, Aim, IQ, etc. gave is his fuel to try to make the Facebook Metaverse,
I was really torn between covering MSN and AIM actually! That's such. an interesting point about the Metaverse connection / virtual life and I totally agree. I think there was such a different idea then of what a cyber life would look like!
Your videos are great! So glad to have found your channel! I was definitely a MSN person over in the UK, but its fascinating to reminsce about it!
Hey thank you so much for the kind words! I'm still really trying to get this channel going and it means so much when people give me a shot! I might cover MSN in the future since it might have been used by more people globally!
An elegant messenger, for a more civilized age.
Elegant, simple, and just a little derpy.
Well put together. Didn't know about the revival projects, and glad to see them, such an iconic part of internet history is worth preserving.
Hey thanks so much for the kind words! Agree it's an interesting part of history and it was actually surprisingly. difficult to find footage of AIM which is shocking. It's also interesting that all of the messages that we had, troves of digital information (although useless) is just lost now. Crazy stuff!
That does make sense. Few were recording or taking screenshots, somewhat due to technology reasons, but mostly due to the lack of motivation to. There would be little reason to share the chats. With the revival projects it should at least make it easy to simulate them if needed. You are right however, that is A LOT of lost media.
Actually I had a family member who's entire job was to preserve lost media (a big inspo for this channel) so in the past he would do things like transfer things like wax recordings to digital formats. Although we can simulate the AIM experience it's hard to believe that from all those billions and billions of messages sent through AIM and MSN I wonder what percentage of them are recorded? Less than 1%? And unlike the wax recording there's not even physical evidence left behind. Anyway sorry for the rant! haha just gets you thinking what else from the Internet will be lost to time@@cratorcorner
Thats a really cool backstory. Must have been a really interesting job. Ya it is surprising in hindsight whats important to those in the future as pieces of history. We are losing as lot over time with digital but its because so much more is created then ever, so at the same time more is being saved then ever to. Crazy to think about. @@exitsexamined
so nostalgic. i miss these days.
I've had registration issues with Phoenix as well. Do they have an email for support?
Loving your vids. This one is great and I really liked the dinotopia one too, such a nostalgia trip. Great work
Hey thank you so much for checking out a couple of my videos, really appreciate the support and great. to know it resonates with other people out there in the world
Sooo good back in the day for keeping in touch with my fellow fandom nerds from forums that didn't have chat features (or we wanted to chat away from certain people). Discord just doesn't have the same feel.
Ah wow miss the fandom nerd talk days on AIM! Interesting to compare actually to Discord - It's kind of crazy that the format really hasn't changed that much. In a broad sense AIM and Discord's interface are remarkably similar considering one is 15+ years older
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Any updates on Nina?
Cool to learn about NINA
You know actually that's a good point I should really link it in the description. Will do that now for ppl who are interested