Flashback #7: AOL Instant Messenger →

For people my age, AIM was the way to stay in touch with friends back in high school and college. It’s not around today for a bunch of reasons, but its feature set defined what we expect from services like iMessage and WhatsApp today.

On this week’s episode of Flashback, Quinn Nelson and I jump online and dig in to this once-huge service.

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