ICYMI: How AIM Changed the Internet 4ever

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🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

AOL Instant Messenger launched 25 years ago, but at the time nobody understood exactly how important it would be in shaping the way we all interact online. On today’s show, Rachelle and Madison talk to AIM expert Caroline Moss about the early years of the platform, the playful shenanigans people got up to on there as teens, and how it led us to the world of always being online. Caroline hosts the podcast Gee Thanks, Just Bought It! Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And now we go live to Tyrell's farm!
0:03.2	Down here in Heidefitscher, the folks are busy bringing in a bumper crop of local spuds.
0:08.8	And of course, when you have the finest potatoes,
0:11.5	only the tastiest ingredients will do.
0:13.7	That's where the tasting team come in.
0:15.7	Surely coming through!
0:16.8	All this ensures their crisps taste de-radi-licious.
0:22.1	In fact, the Tyrell's team have done such a spiffing job.
0:25.7	People across the land are calling their crisps terribly, terribly tasty.
0:30.0	You've got mail!
0:43.4	Hi, I'm Madison Malone-Curture.
0:45.1	And I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to ICYMINE.
0:48.5	In case you missed it,
0:50.0	Slate's podcast about internet culture.
0:52.8	Can you believe 25 years ago AOL launched the, uh, now defunct AIM or AOL Instant Messenger?
0:59.3	I feel so old when you say that.
1:01.5	I also cannot believe that it launched the year after I was born.
1:05.1	I don't know why, but I felt like...
1:08.9	But like AIM was my thing.
1:10.6	But I'm realizing that it is in fact a lot of people's things.
1:20.8	Yeah, it was, it was my thing for a time.
1:23.8	You have to say more.
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