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Best old aim away messages9/24/2023 But with your one last dying breath you’d apologize for bleeding on someone’s shirt… according to you away message… and Taking Back Sunday.Įmo music. What I'm wondering is how much of this I'm getting wrong because I'm not seeing the other forces at work.Do you remember those golden days of AIM? When every slight inconvenience was a perfect excuse to set an away message, dramatically quoting your favorite emo song lyrics? Ah, the good old times! Everything is fine. Proprietary hangouts chats allow for Google to control where and how their chat platform is used. Closed starts to look really good when you realize that once you have a competitor with Apple's strength, market and lock-in, being open starts being a detriment, since anyone can write a client for your app for any platform, but you still can't support iMessage. Google, who was really the main chat in town at that point with gchat, had to either choose to extend XMPP some more or go closed. My impression is that with a major chat provider with other lock-in (the phone, which has it's own lock in, the app store), Apple was able to provide a good chat experience, add extras hard to do with a more heterogeneous ecosystem (facetime, automatic evasion of SMS fees for iphone-to-iphone messages), and keep the protocol closed without losing too many people. I have it in my head that Apple started this (or at least gave it the major push to mainstream), with iMessage. Now think that you can't fire up Instagram or Facebook or even Angry Birds in 2035 and tell someone hey this is how we shared pictures, messaged, and gamed back in the 10's. For a human being that is a very concrete, if not tangible, thing, and of value in itself. It's not just history and culture but an origin. Not only I can still try out the game I never could finish (and observe that I still can't finish it because games in the 80's were often both stupid and ridiculously hard), but I can put my kids at the controls and tell them this is what their parent used to play at the same age. It's like having your old toys on a shelf at your parent's house. I still use IRC on some networks and interface some other chat services by using a proxy frontend that you can connect with an IRC client.īut most importantly, I can launch early computer games from my childhood. There's IRC - while the networks I used then have died a long time ago IRC probably never dies. Disk images of my old computers, binaries of games and applications, fully usable in emulators. In contrast, I still have most what I grew up with. I never used AIM much but if I had I would have a lot of history in my life with a particular service and now they would pull the plug. At any rate there just isn't thatĬritical mass where you know someone is online and chattable. Started, or we're in a different Slack room. I try to get my friends to join a Slack room with me, but we don't always have it Now when you look at your buddy list, you have no idea whether they're at their computer or if they're busy or running around with their phone. On a Mac at least, that's unlike anything we have now with facebook and Messenger.app. It was just a different level of intimacy - I had so many longer and interesting, sometimes deep conversations through AIM (or through iMessage hooked up with AIM). So it meant that you knew when your friends were at the computer, and you knew when you could have long "in the background" conversations with your friends. For most people I knew, they had it set to join when they got on the computer. It was everywhere, and on MacOS it was integrated into the OS. One thing I'll miss about AIM is that it's a communication modality that doesn't exist right now.
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