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Where(or when?) was AIM a big thing? I only knew like 4 people personally who used it. Most people used IRC, MSN, and ICQ, back in the days.
by k__ 6y ago
Where(or when?) was AIM a big thing?
I only knew like 4 people personally who used it. Most people used IRC, MSN, and ICQ, back in the days.
- icedchai 6y agoAIM was big in the late 90’s to early 2000’s. I still had 2 people I talked to on it through 2015 or so.
- egorfine 6y agoDepends on the culture. For instance, it wasn't used at all in the ex-USSR back in the day.
- betterunix2 6y agoGrowing up in NYC, AIM was how I communicated with all my friends. It was very popular at the turn of the century (of the 21st century).
- swozey 6y agoAIM was all my IRL friends, I met a few people from IRC over my 15+ years on it but ICQ and IRC were "internet friends" to me. AIM was huge when I was in middle/hs in the late 90/2000s.
- twobitshifter 6y agoIn the US 2002 or so everyone of my friends was on AIM
- kalleboo 6y agoAIM dominated in the US. Living in Europe, we were on ICQ to start with in like 1996, then IRC, and starting in like 2001 everyone coming online seemed to adopt MSN instead (I guess due to being preinstalled in Win XP?). But at the same time all my U.S. friends were on AIM.