Mary Ann Goode·May 18, 2025Thought Paper 1 — The History of Social MediaSportzgrl08 was my first AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) screen name. In one username, a person could know two key facets of my personality —…
Kayla Harris·May 18, 2025“Talk to Me on AIM!” The Digital History and Evolution of Instant MessagingRunning off the bus at the end of a school day, rushing inside the front door of your home, and scurrying over to the large desktop…
Richard Siomporas·Jan 29, 2024CringeBot — QLoRA fine tuning of a state-of-the-art LLM using AOL Instant Messenger chat logs from…In this episode, we begin our quest to transform Mixtral 8x7B Instruct into my online persona from the early 2000s, and end up turning it…
Caitlin Colver·Jan 15, 2024The Little Yellow Running Man Who Changed Virtual CommunicationThat little running yellow man was an iconic logo in the late 90s to early 2000s. If you mention AOL Instant Messenger to a millennial, a…
Kelly Schikowski·Jan 13, 2024You’ve Got Mail! The History and Impact of AOL Instant MessengerIt is no understatement to say that AOL Instant Messenger was one of the most influential fixtures of the early Internet. At its peak, it…
