The best preservation of my middle- and high-school years doesn't exist in a yearbook or in a diary. All you need to know about me, between the ages of 12 and 17, you could find in my AIM chat logs.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you were between 10 and 25 years old during the late 1990s and early 2000s, there's a really really good chance you had an AOL ...

Back before there were Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Snapchat, GroupMe, and Instagram and Twitter DMs, there was just AOL Instant Messenger. AIM was where an entire generation of teens and tweens ...

AOL Instant Messenger, the instant-chat service known as AIM, is shutting down in mid-December. In a blog post titled "Our Yellow Running Man is Ready to Retire," Michael Albers, the vice president of ...

This is the second installment in The Design of Y2K, a series telling the stories behind the most influential products of the late 1990s and early 2000s. In 1996, the burgeoning internet service ...