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re: AOL IM shuts down in December

Posted on 10/6/17 at 7:24 pm to
Posted by jdd48
Baton Rouge
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Posted on 10/6/17 at 7:24 pm to
ICQ and AIM were kings of the early internet. When the internet meant sitting through repeated modem tones praying you could get connected and jpegs downloading at slow speed.
This post was edited on 10/6/17 at 7:25 pm
Posted by biggsc
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Posted on 10/6/17 at 7:32 pm to
Yes both of those
Posted by BuckeyeFan87
Columbus
Member since Dec 2007
25240 posts
Posted on 10/6/17 at 7:57 pm to
“Uh oh”


MSN messenger was pretty big too
Posted by Korkstand
Member since Nov 2003
28745 posts
Posted on 10/6/17 at 10:46 pm to
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ICQ and AIM were kings of the early internet.
The real geeks were and still are on IRC.
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When the internet meant sitting through repeated modem tones praying you could get connected and jpegs downloading at slow speed.
Hah yeah, on IRC you could generally tell who was on dialup and who was a badass with cable or dsl. You could flood dialup users and boot them offline. The good old days.
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