AOL Instant Messenger

Get some alone time in your family’s computer room and dust the cobwebs off that username, we’re logging in to AIM (aka American Online Instant Messenger): millennials’ first taste of the internet as social media! Do you remember the dulcet dial up tones? The yearning and the sneaking around? The (alarmingly dangerous in retrospect) chat rooms? Tune into this episode to learn about the rise (and fall) of AIM and how it changed the way we all communicate in the internet era.

Honorable mentions of this episode: Gray hairs, Jessica Simpson heels, Jewel, millennial meet cutes, internet abbreviations, the sexual tension of Facebook poking, https://smarterchild.chat/ (you’ll definitely want to explore this), and more.

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