AIM will shut down after 20 years

...and another relatively compact and simple binary protocol dies, displaced by the bloated Web-biased XML/HTML/etc. protocols.

At least IRC is still around...

1995: I’ll a-im you 2000: I’ll send it over msn 2005: I’ll text ya 2010: Skype that over 2015: Did you get my slack

RIP AIM