That was what all the cool kids did

I met lots of people through it, and I think it introduced me to TWW

and I signed on the other day and none of my friends were online, out of 1000's

I'm getting too old for this shit


This has been a random memory, thanks.


(if there is already a topic, bump it and lock this shit)

12/28/2016 10:33:28 AM

just downloaded and logged in. 2 buddies online -- all thru some sort of mobile app (iphone I'd guess?).

12/28/2016 10:47:29 AM

Oh the days of away messages

12/28/2016 12:54:02 PM

You meet people through AIM?

I just used it to talk to my actual friends.

12/28/2016 1:23:05 PM

Yeah, I did like 15 years ago

12/28/2016 2:50:43 PM

did AIM have a browse feature? how did you meet people?

12/28/2016 3:18:56 PM

Let me get that screen name gurl!

12/28/2016 3:21:06 PM

It had a straight up stalker thing, you typed in female and Raleigh, and boom

12/28/2016 3:32:49 PM

12/28/2016 4:30:44 PM

aol IM is how i learned to type

12/28/2016 7:01:01 PM

im signed into AIM everytime im on my computers (desktop or laptop). there are about 4 people I still talk to almost daily on there.

[Edited on December 28, 2016 at 7:53 PM. Reason : #]

12/28/2016 7:51:42 PM

^I used to have you didn't I?

I don't use my old one anymore tho

y'all triggas add me on megabubblebobble

even though there's no point I guess LOL

12/28/2016 11:14:38 PM

ICQ was better. It actually had a search function that fucking worked, unlike AIM. Because of that I found a lot of other folks in my area outside of my usual social circles.

Also ICQ was the primary way I began chatting with my wife back in high school. We used AIM as well, but it started on ICQ. She was pretty shy in person with new folks but more talkative online. So yea, ICQ and AIM to a lesser extent were a pretty big part of my high school years.

12/29/2016 10:42:04 AM

COPY AND PASTE THIS IN YOUR PROFILE IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW HAS DIED FROM A CEDRIC SIMMONS DUNK.

12/29/2016 11:48:01 AM

^^ use trillian and sign into both

12/29/2016 12:29:57 PM

Facebook status messages today are what away messages were back then.

12/29/2016 1:01:01 PM

At some point around 2003 or so people started posting their daily schedules as their AIM away messages and it was all downhill from there.

e.g.:
9-12 class
12-1 gym
1-1:30 so fresh so clean!!! LOL
2-4 chillin
5:30 dinner

12/29/2016 1:47:17 PM

i got catfished on AIM 10 years before catfishing became mainstream, lol

at least i got a fun trip to WY to hang out with my cousin anyways

[Edited on December 29, 2016 at 10:41 PM. Reason : ]

12/29/2016 10:40:39 PM

Who eats dinner at 530? Were you friends with senior citizens on aim?

12/30/2016 7:30:40 AM

Post ambiguous away message just to see who would send you a message.

12/30/2016 8:41:21 AM

^^ I don't know lol I never did that

12/30/2016 9:41:43 AM

AOL IM was all about the sexting before there was sexting haha

12/30/2016 2:34:16 PM

^a/s/l?

Also that was fairly common on ICQ. Oh and on catfishing, I have no idea whether it was real or not, but some chick on ICQ I think hit me up for a while and we used to chat a bit. I just knew she was from LA, but she later said she was Shawna Waldron. I remembered Little Giants but didn't know the cast by name. She sent me some pics of her in paintball gear. Looked like a grown up Icebox. As I was into paintball at the time and thought it was more bad ass that a chick I chatted with online was into paintball than that she was a celebrity. It was all random as hell and we chatted for a bit longer but that was definitely my most memorable chatting with somebody famous (or somebody catfishing) thing from the instant messaging days.

12/30/2016 6:50:06 PM

it was a dude.

you were chatting with a pedophile.

12/31/2016 12:20:57 PM

Quote :

"it was a dude. you were chatting with a pedophile."

1/6/2017 2:01:34 AM

Probably. Oh well.

1/6/2017 7:24:01 AM

I went on omegle the other day, and it seems to be full of bots, just like AIM was at the end


hi how are you
FUCK YOU MOTHER FUCKER
same here, glad to hear it
I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU
me too! you want to see my pics? http://www.meatspin.com [do not click this]
I HOPE YOU HAVE YOUR SHITTING PANTS ON
are you horny? I am
OMEGLE PWNT, STAY HOME

1/12/2017 12:35:51 PM

I love to tell Millenials how we didn't have cellphones in college, we used AIM to communicate. They laugh.

2/13/2017 7:51:01 AM

I like how you old motherfuckers like to say "Millennials" as if it means "younger people." The birthdates for the Millennial cohort start in the early '80s. I was born in '81. I'm a Millennial. I used AIM in college.

2/13/2017 8:08:22 AM

I was born in '81 but I'm not a millennial. I think I'm near the cutoff.

2/22/2017 4:55:09 PM

Quote :

"Bloodninja: Baby, I been havin a tough night so treat me nice aight? BritneySpears14: Aight. Bloodninja: Slip out of those pants baby, yeah. BritneySpears14: I slip out of my pants, just for you, Bloodninja. Bloodninja: Oh yeah, aight. Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat. BritneySpears14: Oh, I like to play dress up. Bloodninja: Me too baby. BritneySpears14: I kiss you softly on your chest. Bloodninja: I cast Lvl 3 Eroticism. You turn into a real beautiful woman. BritneySpears14: Hey... Bloodninja: I meditate to regain my mana, before casting Lvl 8 Penis of the Infinite. BritneySpears14: Funny I still don't see it. Bloodninja: I spend my mana reserves to cast Mighty of the Beyondness. BritneySpears14: You are the worst cyber partner ever. This is ridiculous. Bloodninja: Don't f**k with me biznitch, I'm the mightiest sorcerer of the lands. Bloodninja: I steal yo soul and cast Lightning Lvl 1,000,000 Your body explodes into a fine bloody mist, because you are only a Lvl 2 Druid. BritneySpears14: Don't ever message me again you piece. Bloodninja: Robots are trying to drill my brain but my lightning shield inflicts DOA attack, leaving the robots as flaming piles of metal. Bloodninja: King Arthur congratulates me for destroying Dr. Robotnik's evil army of Robot Socialist Republics. The cold war ends. Reagan steals my accomplishments and makes like it was cause of him. Bloodninja: You still there baby? I think it's getting hard now. Bloodninja: Baby?"

Quote :

"BritneySpears14: Ok, are you ready? eminemBNJA: Aight, yeah I'm ready. BritneySpears14: I like your music Em... Tee hee. eminemBNJA: huh huh, yeah, I make it for the ladies. BritneySpears14: Mmm, we like it a lot. Let me show you. BritneySpears14: I take off your pants, slowly, and massage your muscular physique. eminemBNJA: Oh I like that Baby. I put on my robe and wizard hat. BritneySpears14: What the f**k, I told you not to message me again. eminemBNJA: Oh s**t BritneySpears14: I swear if you do it one more time I'm gonna report your ISP and say you were sending me kiddie porn you f((k up. eminemBNJA: Oh s((t eminemBNJA: damn I gotta write down your names or something"

[Edited on March 1, 2017 at 1:27 PM. Reason : .]

3/1/2017 1:23:19 PM

GNSP

11/7/2017 2:05:34 AM

I had no idea aim still existed. Wow.

12/9/2017 3:28:05 PM

it doesnt.

12/10/2017 2:45:28 AM

I just signed on, no one out of 1000s of buddies is online

GNSP

12/10/2017 10:10:35 AM

Maybe they all blocked you

12/10/2017 12:33:32 PM

A couple days ago I finally deleted my AIM name from my contact details on Facebook. I hadn't logged on in 5+ years. GNSP.

12/10/2017 2:23:07 PM

logging in one last time

12/14/2017 11:15:33 AM

^i got it but cannot do anything. it ask about my 1st job. I dont remember!!!!!

12/14/2017 11:34:04 AM

Ahh... the memory of leaving an away message on purpose for certain people to see. Today's kids will never know.

3/14/2018 6:03:21 PM

"hey you seem cool. What's your AIM name?"

"Oh I'm not on there."

*awkward silence*

*never speak again*

3/14/2018 8:33:33 PM

That sounds like me and facebook

3/15/2018 11:43:16 AM

I too signed in about a year ago. It was kind of nostalgic to see the buddy list, but then it was depressing to see that no one was online.

We used to use AIM when I worked at Nortel in 2009. Now its office communicator/skype

8/6/2018 1:46:39 PM

The art of the away message was a noble, ephemeral thing

8/6/2018 7:45:02 PM