In a few months, AOL Instant Messenger will go the way of such tech touchstones as AltaVista and Netscape. It was 20 years ago that "AIM" went online. It quickly exploded in popularity, peaked and ...

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AOL Instant Messenger, or AIM, signed off one final time this morning. The real-time, person-to-person computer messaging system that started 20 years ago was taken offline by its parent company, and ...

Michael Albers, vice president of communications product at Oath, made the announcement about the messaging platform on Tumblr. He cited changes in "the way in which we communicate with each other" as ...

Online chat applications will continue, but one of its first forms will be dead on Dec. 15, 2017. AOL wrote Friday on its AOL Instant Messenger page that after 20 years of running, AIM will shut down.