AOL announced Friday that it is discontinuing its pioneering Instant Messenger chat platform after 20 years of service. “AIM tapped into new digital technologies and ignited a cultural shift, but the ...

AOL announced Friday that it is discontinuing its pioneering Instant Messenger chat platform after 20 years of service. The program will still function until Dec. 15 After that date, users won't be ...

Online chat applications will continue, but one of its first forms will be dead on Dec. 15, 2017. AOL wrote Friday on its AOL Instant Messenger page that after 20 years of running, AIM will shut down.

This article is from the archive of our partner . What do we do when Gchat is down? We freak. Over and over again. We yell at the top of our lungs, which hurts, sort of, because we rarely speak aloud ...

The name of the research firm ComScore Media Metrix was misspelled in a March 3 article on America Online's instant-messaging software. (Published 3/4/03) America Online, it seems, can do little right ...

Instant messaging (IM) is now a mainstream communication platform for Web users, according to new data collected by America Online and Opinion Research Corporation, and the new usage figures are ...