After 20 years of door opening sounds, buddy icons, and away messages, AOL's Instant Messenger is set to shut down for good on December 15th, 2017.
All good things come to an end. On Dec 15, we'll bid farewell to AIM. Thank you to all our users! #AIMemories https://t.co/b6cjR2tSuU http://pic.twitter.com/V09Fl7EPMx
-- AIM (@aim) October 6, 2017
In a tumblr post entitled "One Last Away Message" AIM is given a proper eulogy. Unsurprisingly, the service is being offed because "the way in which we communicate with each other has profoundly changed."
Let us thank AIM for all it has done for socially interacting online. As the little yellow AIM man rides off into the sunset on his little yellow horse, let us wave at him until he fades into the horizon.
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RIP AIM. In trying times like this, let's all keep this message close to our hearts: http://pic.twitter.com/03sIEY5w42
-- Ashley Alese Edwards (@AshleyAlese) October 6, 2017
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Without AIM I guess you'll just have to go door-to-door taping Broken Social Scene lyrics up as away messages
-- Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) October 6, 2017
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With AIM gone, I fear the writing is on the wall for https://t.co/m1h9O6QymY - buddy icons that don't suck! http://pic.twitter.com/ex7WM5Dj90
-- Ryan Creamer (@ryguyguyry) October 6, 2017
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When you're waiting for your 7th grade crush to log onto AIM after school and you hear the *door open* sound. http://pic.twitter.com/plQsIqdXPJ
-- Jerry David (@BostonJerry) October 6, 2017
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Honoring AIM the only way I know how http://pic.twitter.com/LLSikWCIo2
-- Kwame Opam (@kwameopam) October 6, 2017
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RIP AIM. honor this somber day by opening a door and shutting it and opening it again and shutting it till your crush pays attention to you
-- Julia Reinstein (@juliareinstein) October 6, 2017
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RIP AIM: I will miss putting up passive aggressive away messages about people I hated but didn't want to confront in person.
-- Jennifer Nicole (@faintestofheart) October 6, 2017
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aol instant messenger is where i learned to be horny via text, a skill i now use every day
-- law dog, esq. (@ggooooddddoogg) October 6, 2017
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It's as if millions of DMB quotes cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. #ripAIM
-- Russ Frushtick (@RussFrushtick) October 6, 2017
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sending "a/s/l?" to as many people as possible before AIM shuts down. http://pic.twitter.com/rlNBd16FTO
-- Ryan Satin (@ryansatin) October 6, 2017
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Aim's shutting down- it's official, it'll never work out between you and your 7th grade crush.
-- Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) October 6, 2017
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I can't decide which John Mayer song I should quote to express my sadness at the death of AOL Instant Messenger
-- Man Repeller (@ManRepeller) October 6, 2017
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RIP AOL Instant Messenger, the Twitter for people who liked each other.
-- Kibblesmith NYCCP4⚔️ (@kibblesmith) October 6, 2017
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RIP the G.O.A.T. - A/S/L= the orignal sup
-- PFTCommenter (@PFTCommenter) October 6, 2017
BONUS: Two nice wholesome stories of AIM making the world a better place
I met and fell in love with my wife over AIM. Those little bloops and door creaks literally changed my life.
-- Tristan Cooper (@TristanACooper) October 6, 2017
Goodbye AIM. thanks for helping me flirt with the hot girl from my comm principles class (who happens to be my wife now) https://t.co/9ReG94ZoFb
-- gabrus🚽 (@jongabrus) October 6, 201
from CollegeHumor: Pictures http://ift.tt/2fPXfj4
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