Re:AIM will shut down after 20 years
by Alex3917 on Friday October 06, 2017 @11:28AM
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And that system wasted insane amounts of electricity since each user needed to leave their computer on 24/7. Say what you will about Facebook, but allowing people to leave their computer in sleep mode at night has been an enormous contribution that Zuck has made the world.
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We have moved to low power mobile phones that are always on anyhow, so those days would be over regardless.
And, are you sure that facebook doesn't consume even more power with whole data centers fir storage, analysis and serving of mountains of trivial data, all to sell more ads?
Did many folks feel forced to do that due to AIM?
For those of us in households with one phone line, we couldn't even be online 24/7 even if we wanted to. I had no problem turning off the computer at many times of day and simply being "offline"..