AOL Instant Messenger, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where AOL Instant Messenger comes up
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 12:25 David Rosenthal And then, speaking of family and friends chat, in 1997, when Mark is 13 years old, AOL launches AIM.
- ▶ 12:37 David Rosenthal AOL Instant Messenger.
- ▶ 12:40 Ben Gilbert Many, many, many hours lost to AIM, and, uh, warning my friends and other dynamics of the AIM system to gang up on people, and to have other people gang up on me, and.
- ▶ 12:53 David Rosenthal Oh man, punting people off AIM, and.
- ▶ 13:08 David Rosenthal The crazy thing about AIM, to go on just a quick little digression here, I had no idea until doing the research.
- ▶ 14:26 David Rosenthal So the other important thing about AIM, when it came out that I had no real conception of at all as a kid, was that it was free.
- ▶ 14:42 David Rosenthal But you didn't have to be a paying AOL subscriber to download and use AIM and join the network.
- ▶ 14:50 David Rosenthal AIM goes on to become this total viral thing in North America.
- ▶ 15:43 David Rosenthal And basically all of them and certainly all the young people were on AIM.
- ▶ 15:48 David Rosenthal So the other important thing about AIM and AOL here is it was pretty easy to hack, but
- ▶ 15:54 David Rosenthal like, oh man, there was just a field day that kids and teenagers had with like AIM bots, punting software, wares, hacking programs.
- ▶ 16:15 David Rosenthal And it let you kind of be a punk and like kick people off of AIM by bombarding them with messages.
- ▶ 16:22 David Rosenthal You know, you could do some like teenage punk stuff, but it also let you extend the functionality of what AOL and AIM was.
- ▶ 18:58 David Rosenthal And there, Mark meets another kid who's a lot like himself, who also is really into computers, really into AIM and everything going on there, and Mark's like, yeah, man, I really made the right choice.
- ▶ 25:35 David Rosenthal BuddyZoo takes your buddy list from AIM, from AOL, and effectively turns it into a social network.
- ▶ 26:46 David Rosenthal This feels like something more on the order of AIM itself.
- ▶ 27:16 David Rosenthal They're staying in touch the whole time and collaborating and working through coding challenges together on, what else, on AIM.
- ▶ 42:36 David Rosenthal In addition to, technically, because of open source and the LAMP stack, and also socially because of AIM and everything going on, the world sorta, for the first time, something like Facebook being able to be built for no money and no…
- ▶ 50:24 David Rosenthal You put in your AIM screen name, you put in your cell phone, you put in your interests, you put in your classes.
- ▶ 1:29:55 David Rosenthal Adam D'Angelo does go back to Caltech and then through AIM, I guess, remotely helps collaborate with the company until he graduates and in 2006 and becomes CTO officially.
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 2:42:26 Ben Gilbert And due to the court documents, there was a, uh, conversation leaked about Kevin strategizing over AIM with a very strategic advisor about how to position the sale to Facebook.
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 3:58:28 Ben Gilbert and oh, now I'm old enough for it to be on our AppleTalk network, and old enough for it to be connected to the actual internet so I can use things like AIM.
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 21:19 Brendan Eich ICQ buttons and aim buttons and things like that.