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Re:Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames by yokoprime on Friday April 08, 2022 @01:54PM (#30960338)
> or that time when half the internet switched to ICQ and I'm still not sure how it was better than AIM but I was convinced it was.

Living in Europe, I never saw the AIM client in use anywhere. I've never heard of anyone locally who used it. It was all ICQ, or later MSN / Skype.

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Re:Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames by maxwell on Friday April 08, 2022 @02:05PM (#30960493)
Of course. "America" is in the name.
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Re:Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames by julianlam on Friday April 08, 2022 @02:15PM (#30960626)
Technically it isn't, since AIM is "AOL Instant Messenger", where AOL happens to also be an acronym, but it isn't America On-Line Instant Messenger, since then it'd be AOLIM.
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Re:Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames by drusepth on Friday April 08, 2022 @02:42PM (#30960938)
I wonder if there's a word for these kinds of nested or multi-layer acronyms. Acronyms in acronyms.
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Re:Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames by ModernMech on Friday April 08, 2022 @02:44PM (#30960974)
It's like a recursive acronym with a base case, so it terminates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym

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Re:Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames by hoosieree on Friday April 08, 2022 @03:23PM (#30961409)
Somebody needs to make a recursive acronym in the shape of the Ackermann function.
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Re:Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames by onaworkcomputer on Friday April 08, 2022 @03:45PM (#30961644)
It's not recursive, though -- that would only be true if AOL stood for AIM On-Line.

Maybe "nested acronym" is a better term?

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Re:Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames by DougMellon on Friday April 08, 2022 @06:28PM (#30963284)
> Multi-layered acronyms: AIM: "AOL Instant Messenger," in which "AOL" originally stood for "America Online"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym

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Re:Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames by smcl on Saturday April 09, 2022 @04:04AM (#30966092)
AOL as an ISP existed in the UK at least, a couple of my friends used it and I had a bunch of the AOL discs for some reason (they came with PC Zone or PC Gamer magazines, maybe)
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Re:Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames by INTPenis on Saturday April 09, 2022 @04:41AM (#30966273)
I was a european who had AIM installed because I had a lot of interactions with Americans I had met on IRC.

But here everyone was on ICQ, and then MSN Messenger. That's when I bailed.

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