Friday marks a sad day for fans of AOL's Instant Messenger: the service has been discontinued. Users who visit AIM.com are redirected to a support with details on its demise. Oath, the new entity ...

It's the end of an era. As of Friday, web company AOL's groundbreaking Instant Messenger program is no more. AOL announced in October that it would retire AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) on Dec. 15. As of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you were a user of the World Wide Web between the late 1990s and early 2000s, there’s a good chance you used AOL Instant ...

In a few months, AOL Instant Messenger will go the way of such tech touchstones as AltaVista and Netscape. It was 20 years ago that "AIM" went online. It quickly exploded in popularity, peaked and ...

Major internet service provider AOL was dominating the market in the 1990s, not long after its founding in 1983. In that decade, AOL programmers worked on an app that had the ability to send instant ...

I use my AIM instant-messaging account every day, but I can’t remember the last time I used the AIM software. Instead, I use iChat, Meebo, Imo.IM, and other third-party clients that work on AIM’s ...

These chat apps — which can be described as cross-platform or multiprotocol IM apps — support more than one instant messaging network. Instead of having the AIM and Yahoo Messenger chat programs ...