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RIP. Browsing friends' creative AIM away messages were the precursor to that Snapchat status(?) feature I hear about.

jrdnbwmn 9y ago
AIM had a surprisingly large effect on all of today's social web: https://medium.com/@jrdnbwmn/the-legacy-of-aim-4321761ec9ff https://medium.com/@jrdnbwmn/the-legacy-of-aim-4321761ec9ff
lode 9y ago
AIM Status messages were the original inspiration for Twitter, then twttr. See : https://www.flickr.com/photos/jackdorsey/182613360 https://www.flickr.com/photos/jackdorsey/182613360 - twttr sketch by founder Jack Dorsey.
- toomanybeersies 9y ago
  It's amazing (disheartening?) to see Twitter evolve from the website where you could tell your friends that you were eating dinner, to a website where the President of the USA makes real policy announcements.
  - celim307 9y ago
    well, theres about the same amount of thought put into either tweet
    - scarmig 9y ago
      Usually I spent at least 30 seconds deciding on where to go to dinner.
    - thenewwazoo 9y ago
      I dunno, I used to spend a lot of time making my status messages really clever.
  - bas 9y ago
    Life comes at you fast.
- reaperducer 9y ago
  I guess he never fingered a .plan.
danielvf 9y ago
I wrote to own code to scrape my friend’s aim status, look for changes, slap them in a DB and then build a timeline web page out of them with PHP. I had my own twitter/facebook in 2000.
toomanybeersies 9y ago
I presume you mean Snapchat stories? In that case, it's a bit different. Snapchat (and Instagram) stories are a gallery of photos and videos that you upload, where the photos and videos are removed from the gallery after 24 hours. Essentially giving you a rolling 24 hour window into peoples lives. I've become a big fan of instagram stories as a way of keeping up with what my friends are doing, since I've moved overseas. It feels a lot more appropriate than using something like a Facebook status to share what you're doing.
- tantalor 9y ago
  > gallery of photos and videos that you upload, where the photos and videos are removed from the gallery after 24 hours Ugh, really? That sounds like a lot of work. Pass.
  - deleted 9y ago
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  - toomanybeersies 9y ago
    Basically if you see something cool, you take a snap. Usually when I take a photo, I say "neat!", so I feel like Bender in Futurama (https://gph.is/1LilXnT https://gph.is/1LilXnT) Anyway, my point is they've made it quite seamless. Pull out phone, swipe for camera, maybe type some text, and hit the upload key.

AIM had a surprisingly large effect on all of today's social web: https://medium.com/@jrdnbwmn/the-legacy-of-aim-4321761ec9ff https://medium.com/@jrdnbwmn/the-legacy-of-aim-4321761ec9ff

lode 9y ago

AIM Status messages were the original inspiration for Twitter, then twttr. See : https://www.flickr.com/photos/jackdorsey/182613360 https://www.flickr.com/photos/jackdorsey/182613360 - twttr sketch by founder Jack Dorsey.

toomanybeersies 9y ago
It's amazing (disheartening?) to see Twitter evolve from the website where you could tell your friends that you were eating dinner, to a website where the President of the USA makes real policy announcements.
- celim307 9y ago
  well, theres about the same amount of thought put into either tweet
  - scarmig 9y ago
    Usually I spent at least 30 seconds deciding on where to go to dinner.
  - thenewwazoo 9y ago
    I dunno, I used to spend a lot of time making my status messages really clever.
- bas 9y ago
  Life comes at you fast.
reaperducer 9y ago
I guess he never fingered a .plan.

danielvf 9y ago

I wrote to own code to scrape my friend’s aim status, look for changes, slap them in a DB and then build a timeline web page out of them with PHP. I had my own twitter/facebook in 2000.

toomanybeersies 9y ago

I presume you mean Snapchat stories? In that case, it's a bit different. Snapchat (and Instagram) stories are a gallery of photos and videos that you upload, where the photos and videos are removed from the gallery after 24 hours. Essentially giving you a rolling 24 hour window into peoples lives. I've become a big fan of instagram stories as a way of keeping up with what my friends are doing, since I've moved overseas. It feels a lot more appropriate than using something like a Facebook status to share what you're doing.

tantalor 9y ago
> gallery of photos and videos that you upload, where the photos and videos are removed from the gallery after 24 hours Ugh, really? That sounds like a lot of work. Pass.
- deleted 9y ago
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- toomanybeersies 9y ago
  Basically if you see something cool, you take a snap. Usually when I take a photo, I say "neat!", so I feel like Bender in Futurama (https://gph.is/1LilXnT https://gph.is/1LilXnT) Anyway, my point is they've made it quite seamless. Pull out phone, swipe for camera, maybe type some text, and hit the upload key.