Episode 102: R.I.P. A.I.M.

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🗓️ 7 October 2017

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

If you're the kind of person who gets a nostalgia hit listening to the sign-on sound from old AIM clients—yes, the one where the door opens—you're going to enjoy our long conversation about the recent announcement AIM will shut down later this year. Austin, Rob, and Patrick discuss the awkward teenage crushes that played out over the messaging service, before using BuzzFeed's recent piece about the origins of the alt-right website Breitbart as a means of re-examining GamerGate, three years after it all started. (Since this podcast was recorded, the VICE employee mentioned in BuzzFeed's story has been fired. Also, Austin's Internet magically turned back on.)

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0:00.0	What's good internet it is October 6 2017 and you are listening to Waypoint Radio
0:22.4	episode 102 102 that's all the different ways I could say 102 I mean it's not true
0:29.2	math is wild you could say 102 by saying like 98 plus 4 that's equal to 102 there's an infinite
0:35.9	number of ways to say 102 one way is not to say it is hi I'm Austin Walker joining me today
0:42.8	Waypoint Radio is Patrick Kleppich Austin where are you what do you want to do you need to explain
0:48.8	the people what you're doing right now I'm on a phone I'm on a phone I'm on a phone all right so
0:56.9	so so also Rob Zack before you launching it to this also Rob Zack me here I asked Dan to give
1:04.3	she wanted to join us and then she didn't wait I'm gonna just check to make sure she didn't want
1:08.0	to join us I know we already started and we clapped but I was like hey do you want to join us and
1:12.1	she was like I thought you already recorded and then I was like we recorded Waypoint 101
1:17.2	and then and then okay get she said you three should just do it I'm glad I'm not just it didn't
1:22.0	just ignore her so the other day I come home late from work I'm taking a big sip of coffee and
1:30.6	check the internet and there wasn't any there was no internet the internet was gone had gone away
1:36.8	I know a thing or two about how to get the internet back so I unplugged everything and plugged it
1:41.3	all back in and changed wires and all that the man of the world that's true that's me not of it
1:48.4	the the upstream and downstream like light on the modem kept blinking rapidly I mean there was
1:54.4	like no connection to the internet it wasn't nothing so I check online and it says oh Queens
2:01.2	vandalism there's a vandalism outage in Queens for my service and so I look into it and it's like
2:08.4	okay someone's gonna come by and it's not just me like other people in the neighborhood who have
2:13.3	had internet problems my gut is that there has is not vandalism it is construction there they have
2:19.3	been digging up the road all along here for a while that's my gut is it like a wire got cutter
2:25.0	some shit in any case there was a post to be a man here yesterday between like 11 and 3
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