AIM died today after a long illness

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Multiple sources are reporting that AOL’s Instant Messenger service finally died today, after a long battle with complete technological irrelevance. Once the premiere platform for online conversations, away-message-based subtweets, and obsessively checking to see if your crush was online but refusing to answer your messages, AIM is survived by a million John Lennon quotes artfully deployed on people’s profiles.