AOL announced Friday that it is discontinuing its pioneering Instant Messenger chat platform after 20 years of service. The program will still function until Dec. 15 After that date, users won't be ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. On Version History: the long reign of AOL Instant Messenger, the messaging app that maybe never should have ...

This article is from the archive of our partner . What do we do when Gchat is down? We freak. Over and over again. We yell at the top of our lungs, which hurts, sort of, because we rarely speak aloud ...

America Online, the world's largest Internet service provider, on Thursday said it had launched services that let users conduct audio conference calls and share online presentations over its popular ...

TL;DR: AOL, a pioneer of 1990s dial-up internet and instant messaging, will discontinue its dial-up service on September 30, 2025, ending 34 years of legacy connectivity. Despite broadband advances, ...

The name of the research firm ComScore Media Metrix was misspelled in a March 3 article on America Online's instant-messaging software. (Published 3/4/03) America Online, it seems, can do little right ...

Many people were surprised to hear recently that ICQ -- the once-popular instant messaging (IM) client -- will shut down on June 26. I suspect more people were surprised to hear that ICQ (supposedly ...

America Online is launching a program to make its AIM and ICQ instant messaging services interoperable with enterprise instant messaging (IM) systems from other vendors, AOL plans to announce Thursday ...

AOL plans to give external developers a way to embed functionality from AIM into their Web sites, another step in AOL’s efforts to encourage programmers to use its popular instant messaging service.