During a Wednesday night appearance on NewsNation, MAGA congressman Tim Burchett floated a wild conspiracy theory that the ...

What has made interoperability with AIM attractive is AOL's 91 million "Buddy List" network registrants, first only to Israeli Mirabellis' ICQ, which has another 62.4 million registered users and ...

In AIM 6.0, AOL also doubled the number of contacts a user can have in his "buddy" list to 1,000 people, AOL plans to announce on Wednesday.

AIM was launched by AOL in May 1997 after employees Barry Appleman, Eric Bosco and Jerry Harris set out to design and code a standalone messaging app with a Buddy List.

AOL Instant Messenger, widely referred to as AIM, revolutionized the way people interacted in the 1990s, specifically online. While you might not be shocked that the current AEW President and CEO ...

In the 25 Years Since Its Launch, AOL Instant Messenger Has Never Been ‘Away’ While some aspects of AIM seem like relics of a different version of the internet, others remain deeply embedded ...

Later, he and two other co-workers used the buddy list as the foundation for an instant messaging tool that would become AIM, all without the approval of AOL executives.

Saying goodbye to AIM, the instant messenger that changed how we communicate Before the dawn of social media, AIM was the chat client for a generation. After 20 years, it’s shutting down.

Years before Mark Zuckerberg built Facebook, he was focused on another technical project: tinkering with his AOL Instant Messenger account. Like many who grew up in the 1990s and early 2000s, much … ...

AOL Instant Messenger will officially shut down on Friday, but its legacy lives on in the services it helped inspire, like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

An AOL help page says you’ll continue to have access to your @aim.com email address, but there was no way to save or export your AIM buddy list for posterity. That era is really, truly dead.