it's kind of amazing that literally every basic chat program today is less functional than AIM was 20 years ago *and* spies on you
Less functional because it spies on you.
AIM didn't use ssl
Ooooooof, I lived a *lot* of my early 20s on AIM.
imagine thinking AIM didn't spy on you
Lmao Windows Live messenger used to have custom emojis, animated emojis, instant email notifications, and they replaced it with Skype which had none of those and even less
I need AIM, Google Reader, and early-2000s iTunes
I remember there used to be a chat service I used where you kind of moved around chat rooms like a house and you could have animated avatars and shit. It was around the ICQ days.
aim is the ex I never appreciated in their time
Waiting for a new social media Platform to fill me with enough angst as trying to pick the perfect away message.