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

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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