Let Me Go Back Almost 20 Years To When I Would Care About That

I just heard that AOL was finally killing off their Instant Messenger. Hold on, let me go back about 20 years to when I would care about that.

Hold on.

Seriously, I was honestly surprised to hear that Instant Messenger was still around. I’m even surprised that AOL is still around, in any form. I last used Instant Messenger in 2000, about 17 years ago. That’s the last time I had AOL, because I was using it free, and I only used Instant Messenger because it was there. Now? Well, it seems like there’s a dozen other programs I could use to do the same thing…presuming I wanted to talk to that many people that much, which doesn’t seem likely.

Guess at least some others must have thought the same as me or else it’d keep going. Just hard to see why it hung on so long.