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AIM really was the gold standard for instant notifications and ambient signaling. Away messages were fantastic and if you stayed logged in, non-experts (normals

AIM really was the gold standard for instant notifications and ambient signaling. Away messages were fantastic and if you stayed logged in, non-experts (normals) could disclose and see availability and time idle. The pseudonymous UIDs, AOL's chat rooms, contact management, image sharing, private messaging—this list of innovations introduced to mainstream users made AIM a giant success. Alas, AOL Instant Messenger cannot compete in the age of smartphones. One of my friends with whom I stayed touch first through AIM said > Somehow I really thought there would be an AIM > emoji <emoji of man running: UTF-8 \xf0\x9f\x8f\x83\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbb> I replied > If any service should have an emoji standard, it’s AIM. EDIT: formatting, spelling, sense, fix quote, punctuation, proper noun instead of pronoun

dpark 9y ago
Using “code” indentation for quotes is completely unreadable on mobile. Just use asterisks to italicize.
Stratoscope 9y ago
As dpark mentioned, code formatting doesn't work well for quotes here. I like to use this format which is about as good as we can do with the limited formatting options available here: > *A sentence or paragraph without line breaks.* > *Another paragraph of the quote*. The blank line keeps the paragraphs from running together. Since it's too late for you to edit, here's a mobile-friendly version of what your friend said: > Somehow I really thought there would be an AIM emoji <emoji of man running: UTF-8 \xf0\x9f\x8f\x83\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbb> and your reply: > If any service should have an emoji standard, it’s AIM.