Once Its AIM Was True, But Soon AOL's Instant Messenger Will Be No More
AOL Instant Messenger, with 100 million users at its peak in 2001, was overtaken by mobile text messaging and social media platforms such as Twitter. It will be shut down in December.
In a few months, AOL Instant Messenger will go the way of such tech touchstones as It was 20 years ago that "AIM" went online. It quickly exploded in popularity, peaked and then slowly succumbed to competitors.
