America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Million (1998)

Re:America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Mill... by 89vision on Friday February 21, 2014 @08:20PM (#7280554)

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Re:America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Mill... by josefresco on Saturday February 22, 2014 @05:17PM (#7283876)

2412581 use it everyday with my wife and a couple holdout geeks.

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Re:America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Mill... by s0rce on Friday February 21, 2014 @09:32PM (#7280747)

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Re:America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Mill... by batpad on Saturday February 22, 2014 @04:03AM (#7281495)

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Re:America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Mill... by PakG1 on Saturday February 22, 2014 @06:02AM (#7281724)

Screw all you guys and your good memories, why can't I remember mine? :P

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Re:America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Mill... by mseebach on Saturday February 22, 2014 @06:38AM (#7281787)

I remember when switching from ICQ to Microsoft Messenger thinking "good riddance". Messenger employed the not the least bit novel approach of letting users sign in using a self selected textual screen name.

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Re:America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Mill... by lostlogin on Saturday February 22, 2014 @02:25PM (#7283215)

My god those were awesome. A great friend of mine typed in his name, Ben LastName. It said it was taken, but how about Ovenproof Ben? Mine was also taken, how about Mucous Robin? Both have stuck. Its name generator was fantastically random.

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Re:America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Mill... by jmreid on Saturday February 22, 2014 @03:32PM (#7283463)

I can't believe I can remember mine as well (10407923). I don't even remember my old phone number that I had at the time, or the address of where I lived!

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