AOL Instant Messenger to Shut Down in December
- 7 years ago
AOL Instant Messenger to Shut Down in December
“AIM tapped into new digital technologies and ignited a cultural shift,
but the way in which we communicate with each other has profoundly changed,” Michael Albers, vice president of communications product at Oath, the parent company of AOL, said in a statement on Friday.
“There are a lot of people who had milestone moments in their lives
that happened on AIM,” said Ms. Moss, who was once better known by the screen name sparklegurl27.
But at its height, AIM, as it was known, served as the social center for teenagers
and young adults, the scene of deeply resonant memories and the place where people learned how to interact online.
Those short messages were the basis of Ms. Moss’s parody account, which assumed
the character of a teenage girl whose parents were sometimes just THE WORST.
As important as clothing or the buttons on a backpack, picking just the right song lyrics or inspirational
quotes were among the most visible self-installed billboards of personal identity.
It was a place to pay tribute to the senior class or to friends — who were, without fail, the best friends in the whole world.
“Someone asked them out, or they got broken up with, or they got in a fight with a friend.”
And then there were the away messages and profiles.
“AIM tapped into new digital technologies and ignited a cultural shift,
but the way in which we communicate with each other has profoundly changed,” Michael Albers, vice president of communications product at Oath, the parent company of AOL, said in a statement on Friday.
“There are a lot of people who had milestone moments in their lives
that happened on AIM,” said Ms. Moss, who was once better known by the screen name sparklegurl27.
But at its height, AIM, as it was known, served as the social center for teenagers
and young adults, the scene of deeply resonant memories and the place where people learned how to interact online.
Those short messages were the basis of Ms. Moss’s parody account, which assumed
the character of a teenage girl whose parents were sometimes just THE WORST.
As important as clothing or the buttons on a backpack, picking just the right song lyrics or inspirational
quotes were among the most visible self-installed billboards of personal identity.
It was a place to pay tribute to the senior class or to friends — who were, without fail, the best friends in the whole world.
“Someone asked them out, or they got broken up with, or they got in a fight with a friend.”
And then there were the away messages and profiles.