Tomorrow we say goodbye to AIM. Twenty years of existence is a millennium given the turnover with technology these days. Until cell phones with SMS messaging became ubiquitous, AIM was the way to communicate with friends and family. Now it’s FaceBook…if you’re lucky given how lazy people are, so much for technology bringing us all together. This software/infrastructure being part of AOL, which oddly still exists, has made me wonder how it made any money after say 2004.
Thankfully I made the jump to a successor on my portable, Google’s chat which works through my macOS Messages application. If you’re looking for me, it’s the same as my Gmail; S, my last name, 68, at Gmail dot com.