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There we go again with "this time is different". Yes, AIM is still around today, but it's clearly nearing the end of its days: http://google.com/trends?q=aol+in

There we go again with "this time is different". Yes, AIM is still around today, but it's clearly nearing the end of its days: http://google.com/trends?q=aol+instant+messenger%2C+facebook+chat&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 http://google.com/trends?q=aol+instant+messenger%2C+facebook.... This is a prime example of one technology replacing another. It's extremely naive to think that it'll stop with Facebook and friends.

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natrius 17y ago
By the time AIM is irrelevant, AIM and its AOL subscriber-only predecessor will have been important for at least two decades. That is not a short period of time, and its demise could have easily been avoided with a tiny bit of foresight, not that I would've done any better. Facebook won't be around forever, but it's hard to see how it would be dethroned within the next decade.