But technology-based interactions were limited they didn’t allow for real-time connection and required access to a landline (if you were on the road, likely a payphone) and a computer terminal. A few savvy tech users used pager-speak to communicate “143” (“I love you”) to their partners a few others learned how romantic an email can be. In 1997, mobile phones were still remarkably expensive ( the Nokia 6160 cost about $900 and the Motorola StarTAC cost nearly $1,000) and most could not send text messages. Thank you to all our users! #AIMemories /V09Fl7EPMx- AIM OctoInteraction, in privateĪIM provided a space for discreet real-time interaction, with a layer of privacy not necessarily afforded by the home phone. That is just one testament to AIM’s lasting effects on how people use technology to connect today.Īll good things come to an end. 15 shutdown was announced, notably, on a new real-time text communication channel, Twitter.
AOL Instant Messenger, or AIM, was launched in May 1997 as a way for AOL users to chat each other in real time, via text.
With nearly half of U.S.-based internet traffic flowing through AOL, the stage was set for a social evolution of sorts that shifted our collective relationship with technology and each other. As many as half of the CD-ROMs produced at the time bore the near-ubiquitous AOL logo, offering early computer users the opportunity to surf the internet for a flat fee – at the time, US$19.99 for unlimited monthly access. Toward the mid-1990s, America Online (by then going by its nickname, AOL) was the company through which most Americans accessed the internet.
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