![]() When I was in college I had a free account (meaning I could receive messages but not send anybody). ĪIM is the reason I’m married to my husband. But I had several different handles on there that I switched between depending on what I was needing to use it for or who I wanted to talk to. Most likely 3rd Eye Blind or Savage Garden. I mostly have my many hours on AIM to thank for that.īeyond that, my away message and whatnot was usually some lyric because of course it was. I’ve had to take typing test for jobs at which they were impressed with my speed/accuracy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Because I felt it necessary to carry on as many conversations with my friends as possible at the same time I became a really good typist. I’m turning 38 in a few weeks, and I STILL remember how much a laughed at that.Īnd of course, you posted~~~~ embarrassing away messages~~~~:ĪIM is partly responsible for how quickly I’m able to type. SomeRandomDude: No wonder you felt funny. SomeRandomDude: *starts rubbing MysticRift to find out why she feels funny* One chat interaction that sticks with me: I was just going back and forth with people in one of the main, general chat rooms (hey, remember those?) when this occurred: I remember my screen name being something like MysticRift, as I was into the RIFTS role playing game and the Mystic class within. Good memories of the late night, generally hormonally exciting conversations with people on the periphery of our peer group. I do miss the individuality that we could show with a screen name. For some strange reason, my small private school wrote a school song, where one of the lines read, “More precious than a sparkling jewel.” Due to my extreme lack of self-confidence, and the unanimous “panning” of the song from the students at my school, I thought I’d be funny, creative, and gain some high school popularity points by changing my screen name to “MorePreciousThan.” If The Hobbit, had come out in theatres that year maybe I would have gotten less ridicule, but about the nicest thing my peers could say to me was that it was a screen name for an 11-year-old girl.All in all, I’m glad we use facebook messenger where we use many real names for communication. I had gotten sick of that particular reaction so much that I was in desperate need of change. I had created the screen name “TtoThaX.” It made much sense to me with the caps lock choices, but to everyone else, ttothax just sounded like Roger Daughtry’s “My Generation” stuttering with a lisp.2. All of my friends at my small private school decided to call me Tex, which I owned, despite being a short pudgy Jewish kid from the suburbs without any athletic prowess. I had moved to California from Texas when I was 14. You made serious missteps with screen names: Drove the other students that used the lab to goof off insane. Whenever I was in the college computer lab, I always made it a point to uninstall AIM from the station I was at. ![]() Below, one last tribute to the chat client that started it all. In a fit of nostalgia, we asked our old-timey readers for their most potent AIM memories, and boy, did they deliver. By then even its most enthusiastic users had long since abandoned it for Skype, Slack, Facebook Messenger and the myriad other chat options now available to us.īut for many of us, AIM helped us cut our teeth and feel out the still-developing etiquette of online chat how to wield away messages for good and for evil maintaining Snapchat-like “streaks of hours logged on navigating group chats sliding into the DMs of crushes (or strangers) and expressing ourselves with ever more elaborate emojis. The chat service shut down for good back in 2017. ![]()
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