AOL Instant Messenger
part of AOL
2 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 28, 2024 by David Rosenthal · said 23 times in 4 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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Oct 28, 2024
AOL Instant Messenger Originated as a Rogue Enterprise Chat Project
“Yeah, so it was a couple engineers that just went off and built this, almost against the wishes of management. It was not originally intended to really be for social use or for kids at all. It was more like the idea they had was it was going to be kind of like…”
Oct 28, 2024
Rosenthal: AIM reached 36M users by 2001 as first consumer viral software
“It's the first piece of consumer viral software, and so by 2001, a couple years after launch, it has thirty six million users, including, as we've been talking about, basically every middle and high schooler with access to a computer.”