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who remembers aim chat rooms

by clydefrog
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yesterday i booted up an old PC that i used circa early 90s to 2005 (or so). it was like a blast from the past. had original Mozilla browser on there, and an early 2000 release of AOL instant messenger. from there it took me a good few minutes to recall my password for AIM. funny enough, there were like 10 people online (using aim, and not mobile) on my buddylist. didn't know people still used AIM. but actually quite a few people do, and they even still hit up AIM chat rooms. it took me a few minutes to find AIM chats on google (using AIM Chat Rooms) and turns out the chats are still active. not the original popping ones like Brittany Spears and Eminem (lol), but different ones. such a blast from the bast.

anyone remember hitting up AOL or AIM chat rooms back in the day?
  • Profile picture of the author KimW
    If you mean AOL chat rooms, yes. I am not sure if by saying AOL and AIM you are actually meaning the same thing or not.
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  • Profile picture of the author clydefrog
    they were \ are two different services under the same company, so no. but yeah, those chat rooms were cool too. just didn't use them as much.
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  • Profile picture of the author KimW
    Sorry, I jave no idea what an AIM chat room was....though I did you AOL chatrooms avery night and AIM daily.

    That was also back in the day when AOL charged %6 an hour to connect at 14.4 and if you were lucky 28K.
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  • Profile picture of the author clydefrog
    oh god yes. the dial up days. AOL and their free cds too. heh. but yeah, AIM later developed separate chat rooms for their service.
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  • Profile picture of the author KimW
    What I think is funny is that a group of people that used to hang out in the AOL Chat room has now started a FaceBook page to share memories about the room.
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  • Profile picture of the author Young Financier
    Wasted a lot of my life in the AOL chat rooms. Only time I did the AIM rooms was when I was invited by a specific group.
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  • Profile picture of the author KimW
    AOL chat rooms were the original Online Dating Site.
    I had just divorced my first wife when I discovered AOL.
    Nothing more needs to be said.
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    • Profile picture of the author clydefrog
      Originally Posted by KimW View Post

      AOL chat rooms were the original Online Dating Site.
      I had just divorced my first wife when I discovered AOL.
      Nothing more needs to be said.
      lol definitely. so many connections were made, effectively too. i know quite a few couples who met originally on AOL or in an AIM chat room and now live together \ are married \ have kid(s).

      i hear it's the same way now a days with social networks like Tumblr.
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  • Profile picture of the author KimW
    Where do you get the name Clydefrog?
    I used to be in a gaming clan that had a member with that name.
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  • Profile picture of the author kenmichaels
    AOL rooms, now that brings back memories.

    You could not log in without getting 20 private msg's that said

    n/a/s name - age - sex

    Or

    s/a/ l sex -age - location

    btw, before he got too big for his britches, and AOL was nothing more then
    telnet, i knew steve case. I actually talked with him once or so a week for years.
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  • Profile picture of the author KimW
    close,but it was usually A/S/L?
    and those were mostly from men....lol
    There were groups of us that hung out in the same room night after night, and with the rooms having a 23 user limit,you would have people using pprograms that would automatically bang the room so you could be the next one in if someone left.

    We also used to throw parties every few months.
    I put together three parties over the time I was an active participant and my claim to fame was that two of them were the highest attended ever.
    One was Halloween and the other was Valentines day.
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    • Profile picture of the author kenmichaels
      Originally Posted by KimW View Post

      close,but it was usually A/S/L?
      and those were mostly from men....lol
      yeah, that's it

      and yeah... i never had a "real" woman say hi to me. not once, not ever.
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  • Profile picture of the author KimW
    I did,but only because I had unintentionally chosen a username that people took as having sexual meaning,which it did not. I was too naive to even think that way when I first got online. Even now I use a shortened version of the name,but people use it as a nickname for me
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    • Profile picture of the author kenmichaels
      Originally Posted by KimW View Post

      I did,but only because I had unintentionally chosen a username that people took as having sexual meaning,which it did not. I was too naive to even think that way when I first got online. Even now I use a shortened version of the name,but people use it as a nickname for me

      If Curiosity killed the cat

      consider me dead

      come on! ... at least give us a hint.
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      • Profile picture of the author KimW
        Originally Posted by kenmichaels View Post

        If Curiosity killed the cat

        consider me dead

        come on! ... at least give us a hint.
        My original screen name back when I joined AOL in the mid 90s was Majiklover.
        I chose it because my hobby was Magic,but at the time I was studying bizzarre style of presentation so I spelled it Majik instead of magic and of course the lover part was due to my love of the hobby.

        It didn't take long for more experienced on AOL to tell me that others were attaching a different meaning to it.

        Later on,when I was joining other forums,such as this one, I shortened it to Majik,which was my original username here..

        I use to do a lot of online gaming and I used Majik there too,but most people I gamed with shortened it to just Maj.

        When I got sick I reached out for help just to my gaming friends,which is why my blog was called MajsKidney.


        With all that ,the cat's curiosity should be satisfied.
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        • Profile picture of the author AprilCT
          Yep, I also spent hours talking in AOL chat rooms. AOL was pretty wild, but you could still find some cool rooms and many really nice and fun people to talk -- I miss those good times.

          Any idea why AOL got rid of the chat rooms? I know their chat rooms really had a reputation generally, but still there were places to go that were fairly safe if you didn't provide too personal information for public consumption.
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  • Profile picture of the author clydefrog
    yeah I remember ASL, that later developed into ASLR (age, sex, location, rage) and ASLP (age, sex, location, pics). funny times.
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  • Profile picture of the author ronrule
    Ah, the good old days of pumping penny stocks in AOL and Yahoo chat rooms. Life was so simple back then...
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    • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
      Hell, I used to live in the AOL chat rooms.

      I think I got my AOL account, which I still have, in 1997. I used dial up and it was fine, I guess.

      Today, it's Comcast and I haven't seen an AOL chat room in years.

      Some of those room names were so whacked

      Hubbywisheswifewould
      Crossdressersonly
      Hotforteacher

      LOL

      Oh those were the days alright. LOL
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  • Profile picture of the author clydefrog
    Lol yeah. AOL brought so many people to their service, especially the weirdos. I recall having the screenname HardcoreClyde (or something similar), and weird guys somehow found that to be a reason to message me with... things. weirdos mannn, weirdos.

    AOL and AIM chat rooms are becoming deader and deader, probably won't make a comeback, so you probably won't be seeing them again. Although they are starting to turn a profit, not sure how though. Probably with advertising or something.
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    • Profile picture of the author KimW
      Originally Posted by clydefrog View Post

      Lol yeah. AOL brought so many people to their service, especially the weirdos. I recall having the screenname HardcoreClyde (or something similar), and weird guys somehow found that to be a reason to message me with... things. weirdos mannn, weirdos.

      AOL and AIM chat rooms are becoming deader and deader, probably won't make a comeback, so you probably won't be seeing them again. Although they are starting to turn a profit, not sure how though. Probably with advertising or something.
      Nostalgia.
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  • Profile picture of the author SteveJohnson
    Never did AOL chat rooms, but spent way more time than I should've on IRC
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  • Profile picture of the author garyv
    I used to make several hundred $$ per day no lie with chat-bots on aol and aim chat rooms... If you ever got an ASL message from a woman, chances are great that it was one of my chat-bots. - I had every computer in the house running chat bots. Some would hold fake conversations with each other, and then others would send out instant messages anytime someone joined the room. Friend-Finder was paying upwards of $2 per signup if you could get your conversion rate high enough. - I'd also run them in the IRC chat rooms. Anyone use those?

    But that was before they passed spam laws - so technically it was legal.
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  • Profile picture of the author clydefrog
    yeah i recall spam bots \ chat bots. knew quite a few people who ran them and some people who developed them using oscar\toc protocols. fairly basic stuff to program when it came to "spimming" (spamming but instant messaging). i ran quite a few of those bots, but never bothered with AI, just utilized 1 line auto responses, made decent cash back then. i'm willing to bet there's still money to be made with spimming on the AIM\AOL network, cause some of their aim chat rooms are still active.

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