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…
Sunshine Venable·May 20, 2023How AOL Instant Messenger Shaped Today’s Instant Messaging Communication EffortsBeing able to send a message to friends, family, companies, and brands through social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter…
Kathryn Nohilly·Jan 21, 2023AOL Instant Messenger: A Short Social HistoryMy first memory of any form of social media technology was using AIM in the 5th grade. It is less of a single memory and more of a phase of…
ShaTyra (Reed) Cox·Jan 16, 2023AIM: The Pioneer of Instant MessagingRaise your virtual hand if you were born before 1996. There are some things we reminisce on that highlight the good ole’ days. Then there…
ShaTyra (Reed) Cox·Jan 16, 2023Raise your virtual hand if you were born before 1996.Launch in 1997 as an extension to America Online (AOL), AIM became an instant staple of personal computers. AIM was the direct result of…
Filmmakers Compass Podcast·Dec 16, 2022R.I.P. A.I.M.The running man is dead. The running man, remember that yellow stick figure in motion who used to greet you every time you logged onto AOL…
