I remember those. sidenote - i think i hung on with AIM until like 2012 or something before i just started using gchat instead Yeah, I used it until 2012, too. I logged into the IM web portal within the last year for the hell of it and I saw the same, like, 5 people I knew from college, who, up until 2012, were seemingly connected to IM ALL THE TIME. Literally 24/7, with the exact same profile and away status for years and years, with no change. It's like they logged in on a computer lab workstation on campus about 18 years ago, didn't log off, and somehow those computers still function and were never rebooted. It's baffling.