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AOL Instant Messenger, the instant-chat service known as AIM, is shutting down in mid-December. In a blog post titled "Our Yellow Running Man is Ready to Retire," Michael Albers, the vice president of ...

We had high expectations for 2017 but it has been a pretty intense year and to add to that, news just broke about AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) being shut down after 20 years. Many of us spent countless ...

Toward the mid-1990s, America Online (by then going by its nickname, AOL) was the company through which most Americans accessed the internet. As many as half of the CD-ROMs produced at the time bore ...

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