Its quick ascent wasn't so surprising-AIM filled a niche for easy, instant and casual communication, something the rise of the Internet age seemed to promise. On December 15, AOL Instant Messenger will be no more, Michael Albers, vice president of communications product at Oath (Verizon's corporate merger of AOL and Yahoo), announced in a new blog post.ĪIM, as it was often abbreviated, launched quietly in May 1997 as a product created by developers Barry Appelman, Eric Bosco and Jerry Harris and several other of the company's engineers without the permission of their bosses or the company at large, Jason Abbruzzese wrote in a history of the platform for Mashablein 2014. As the dominant internet provider of the decade, America Online had built a business around charging fees for all of its services, and the free cost of AIM baffled the company.Īfter the messaging service ballooned in popularity, however, the free product was, reluctantly, allowed to continue on. So, for example, “Check out what I just wrote: file:///Users/me/Documents/Why-Adium-is-awesome.txt” will go through, but “Check out what I just wrote” will not.In the crowded space of iMessage, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, one of the ancient forebearers of the messaging technology is set to fade away. On the other hand, it will allow the message if the address is plain text instead of a link. A perfectly valid file: link can refer to a path that does not exist on anyone's machine, such as this one.) (The file need not actually exist on one end or the other. These addresses are intended to refer to files on the sender's or your computer. However, it appears that the AIM server drops messages containing even escaped HTML (but only those two tags-other tags work fine).ĪIM will also drop any message containing a link to a file: address. HTML tags that you put into the inputline are “escaped” by Adium, so that the recipient's client will not attempt to use the HTML tag it will simply display the text of the tag. AIM servers filter strings containing
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