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Re:AIM will shut down after 20 years by code_duck on Friday October 06, 2017 @11:39AM (#15417626)
Text messaging = SMS for many people in the US. The term SMS has never been used much by consumers here, that I have heard. People call it texting. It has only been popular enough to be useful since about 2002-2005, which is after the glory days of ICQ for me.
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Re:AIM will shut down after 20 years by arprocter on Friday October 06, 2017 @01:35PM (#15418613)
I recall AIM implemented a feature where you could add contacts by cell number (instead of screen name) and then it would send the AIM messages as texts
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Re:AIM will shut down after 20 years by skinnymuch on Saturday October 07, 2017 @09:59AM (#15423790)
That's how Aim is now for me. The only people logged in for the past couple of years are people who's messages forward to their texts.
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