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AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) (2004)
BRB, G2G, away message up. The chat client that defined teen communication.
- Cost
- 5 RAM
- Power
- 6
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Social
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: +1 Power to your cards in other lanes.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 5 RAM to play and brings 6 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Social cards lift the cards around them, here and in the other lanes.
The site, in 2004
An instant messaging program from AOL, with buddy lists and away messages, that ran from 1997 to 2017.
Teens and students left away messages up to say where they were and what they were thinking. In 2006 it reportedly held 52% of the instant messaging market in the United States. AOL shut it on 15 December 2017.
In 2004: Still inside its 1999 to 2005 peak. Google Talk, with chat built into Gmail, arrived the next year.
Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2004 page.
Put it on your site
Run AIM (AOL Instant Messenger), or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2004, then plays a short scene. Want AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
