Using AIM Until the Bitter End

Replied to AIM-ing For a More Open Platform Than Discord by Tyler August (hackaday.com) Do you remember AIM? It may [surprise] you to hear that AOL’s instant [messenger] was actually supported all the way up to 2017... Hackaday published an article authored by Tyler August titled AIM-ing For A More Open Platform Than Discord, wherein he summarized an article on running a self-hostable open-source implementation of AIM’s underlying OSCAR protocol (see Here’s how I host my own AIM server at Veronica Explains). I appreciate the project to bring back AIM because I used AIM for many years. My own use of AIM inspired me to reply to one minor part of Mr. August’s report. He began the article by asserting that “[i]t may surpri[s]e you to hear that AOL’s instant [messenger] was actually supported all the way up to 2017…” Surprise me? I will have Mr. August and everyone else know that I used AIM on the last day the service was live. Moreover, although I had been using AIM through the Trillian…