How AOL Instant Messenger changed the way we ‘social’ize

Jennifer DiDomenico
4 min readMay 17, 2021

Remember getting home from school, going straight to your room, throwing down your backpack, and turning on your desktop computer? Then waiting for your home’s dial-up Internet, typing in your AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) username and password, and checking to see who was online? Those were the days.

Credit: vox.com

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Jennifer DiDomenico

Former Newspaper Entertainment Editor, turned DMO Media Relations Specialist • UF Graduate Student • Sharing my experience while learning from yours.