{"id":19145,"date":"2017-10-06T16:34:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T20:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=19145"},"modified":"2021-05-20T11:04:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T15:04:59","slug":"aim-will-shut-down-after-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/06\/aim-will-shut-down-after-20-years\/","title":{"rendered":"AIM Will Shut Down After 20 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aimemories.tumblr.com\">AOL<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aim\/status\/916290747850264577\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/aimemories.tumblr.com\"><p>AIM tapped into new digital technologies and ignited a cultural shift, but the way in which we communicate with each other has profoundly changed. As a result we&rsquo;ve made the decision that we will be discontinuing AIM effective December 15, 2017.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/10\/6\/16435690\/aim-shutting-down-after-20-years-aol-instant-messenger\">Jacob Kastrenakes<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=15417019\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/10\/6\/16435690\/aim-shutting-down-after-20-years-aol-instant-messenger\"><p>AOL cut off access to AIM from third-party chat clients back in March, hinting at this eventual shutdown. It&rsquo;s hard to imagine that many people are still using AIM, so that change, nor this upcoming shutdown, are likely to make a huge difference.<\/p>\n<p>AIM was one of the first and most successful instant messengers, widely used in the late &rsquo;90s and even throughout the 2000s. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=15417285\">empath75<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=15417285\"><p>I think it&rsquo;s remarkable how badly aol fumbled the ball on AIM twice &mdash; first by not turning it into a social network, and second by not turning it into enterprise chat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I didn&rsquo;t use AIM much because I found it too distracting. Clearly the world has moved on, but it&rsquo;s sad that replacements such as iMessage and Slack are less functional than AIM in certain ways and don&rsquo;t have the rich ecosystem of third-party clients.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AOL (tweet): AIM tapped into new digital technologies and ignited a cultural shift, but the way in which we communicate with each other has profoundly changed. As a result we&rsquo;ve made the decision that we will be discontinuing AIM effective December 15, 2017. Jacob Kastrenakes (via Hacker News): AOL cut off access to AIM from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-05-20T15:05:02Z","apple_news_api_id":"e9e2bd8a-7c10-4a90-8c48-eb8b5cf13764","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-05-20T15:05:03Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A6eK9inwQSpCMSOuLXPE3ZA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2070,931,827,295,1451,96],"class_list":["post-19145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-anniversary","tag-aol-instant-messenger-aim","tag-chat","tag-history","tag-sunset","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19146,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19145\/revisions\/19146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}