I recently had a memory come back to being on aol sometime in 2001 and chatting with someone who claimed to be from Japan. This was in an anime chat room I used to visit.

Was the service available outside the USA?

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    1 month ago

    Was that always the case? I remember aim being an app a couple years after I had left aol and I still used it but I wasn't sure if early on it was.

      • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 month ago

        I'm sure it was earlier than that. I'm in the UK, and I'm pretty sure I was using it at home in the mid 90s, and almost definitely when I was living away in 1998. I remember using Trillian to speak on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and a few others around the same time :)

          • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            1 month ago

            I must be thinking of one of the other chat programs then, Pidgin maybe? I could have sworn it was Trillian though.

            I remember using some form of AIM after I moved in to my first place in 1998, because I was keeping in touch with friends on it without having the full AOL software installed.