AOL Instant Messenger To Shut Down December 15

    AOL Instant Messenger, one of the pioneering chat applications of early days on the internet, will be closed on December 15, the company said on Friday. Closure comes 20 years after the launch of AIM, which has become the wildly popular feature of AOL, the largest Internet service provider at that time. Verizon, which AOL bought in 2015 and united it into a unit called the Oracle this year, said she was looking at new instant messenger replacement services.

“AIM tapped into new digital technologies and ignited a cultural shift, but the way in which we communicate with each other has profoundly changed,” said Michael Albers, vice president at Oath.
“As a result we’ve made the decision that we will be discontinuing AIM effective December 15, 2017. We are more excited than ever to continue building the next generation of iconic brands and life-changing products for users around the world.”
AIM has been overtaken by other messaging applications and social media amid a growing move to smartphones.
Facebook-owned WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger each have more than one billion users.
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