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code_duck on Oct 6, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: AIM will shut down after 20 years

Text messaging = SMS for many people in the US. The term SMS has never been used much by consumers here, that I have heard. People call it texting. It has only been popular enough to be useful since about 2002-2005, which is after the glory days of ICQ for me.

arprocter on Oct 6, 2017 [–]

I recall AIM implemented a feature where you could add contacts by cell number (instead of screen name) and then it would send the AIM messages as texts

skinnymuch on Oct 7, 2017 | [–]

That's how Aim is now for me. The only people logged in for the past couple of years are people who's messages forward to their texts.

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