It's truly the end of an era that many have not thought about in 15 years, but still something to take note of and think of a simpler time when we all weren't in each other's business 24/7. Part of the email reads: 'From setting the perfect away message to that familiar ring of an incoming chat, AIM will always have a special place in our hearts.' AIM users can download images they sent until December 15th, but the app's download links will start disappearing immediately. Tech Crunch reports that AOL sent out an email reporting that AIM was shutting down. Perhaps more than any other product, AIM helped establish the internet as a place to hang out rather than being a virtual library or porn destination. This is a plugin for Pidgin 2.x which implements Off-the-Record Messaging over any IM network Pidgin. but you can download java-otr version 0.1.0. When AIM launched in 1997, using the World Wide Web required a desktop computer with a dial-up connection that tied up the phone lines and angered brothers and sisters all over the world. Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging by.

Many will remember late night study sessions chatting with buddies instead of studying and illegally downloading albums by Metallica and Radiohead and sharing them via AIM.

AIM was one of the first and most successful instant messengers, widely used in the late '90s and even throughout the 2000s.

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