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Topic: AOL Instant Messenger

A photo of the author as a girl. (Courtesy of the Author)

How AIM saved one girl's life

Terence Mickey - Memory Motel
Old School AOL Instant Messenger (Salon/Ilana Lidagoster)

My so-called online life

JoAnna Novak
(AP/Axel Heimken)

RIP AIM

Matthew Sheffield