{"id":8706,"date":"2017-10-05T22:54:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T05:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8706"},"modified":"2017-10-07T22:58:40","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T05:58:40","slug":"aim-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/05\/aim-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"AIM Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Atlantic<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

AIM Was Perfect, and Now It Will Die<\/h1>\n

A eulogy for the chatting service, which will shut down on December 15<\/strong><\/p>\n

by\u00a0ROBINSON MEYER<\/a><\/p>\n

\"TheAxel Heimken \/ AP<\/em><\/p>\n

You kids don\u2019t understand. You could never understand.<\/p>\n

You walk around in habitats of text, pop-up cathedrals of social language whose cornerstone is the rectangle in your pocket. The words and the alert sounds swirl around you and you know how to read them and hear them because our culture\u2014that we<\/em> made\u2014taught you how. We were the first generation to spend two hours typing at our closest friends instead of finishing our homework, parsing and analyzing and worrying over \u201cu were so funny in class today\u201d <\/em>or \u201cnah lol youre pretty cool.\u201d <\/i><\/p>\n

That thing you know how to do, that cerebellum-wracking attentiveness to every character of the text message and what it might mean\u2014we invented that.<\/em> But when we invented it, we didn\u2019t have text messages, we didn\u2019t have Snapchat, we didn\u2019t have group chats or Instagram DMs or school-provided Gmail accounts. We had AIM. We had AOL Instant Messenger.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow did AIM work?\u201d you ask. It was like Gchat or iMessage, but you could only do it from a desktop computer. (Since we didn\u2019t have smartphones back then, its desktop-delimited-ness was self-explanatory.) You could set lengthy status messages with animated icons in them. And iconic alert noises<\/a> played at certain actions: the door-opening squeak <\/em>when someone logged on, the door-closing click<\/em>when they logged off, the boodleoop <\/em>for every new message.<\/p>\n

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