Is It AIM or A.I.M?

Kids these days will ever understand how amazing it felt to run home to get on your computer and sign on to AIM and talk to the kids that you could’ve talked to all day at school, but you were too scared to. Let’s be honest, there was no feeling like hearing that door open when somebody on your buddy list signed on or – if you were smart – that custom sound when your crush logged on.

Simply orgasmic.

Kinda sad for the kids who came after that era to be honest. AIM truly was poppin off back in the day.

Away messages were the sub-tweet before the sub-tweet. You had to be very calculated. Que the lyrics, randomly placed characters that made absolutely zero sense and the sporadic capitalization of letters for no damn reason at all.

I honestly am cringing thinking of the shit I put up to try to get the attention of my crushes throughout the years. I was an absolute disaster. (Sorry, Will.)

On this week’s “More Fire”, Kevin, Feits and I got into our most embarrassing moments on the internet (my life should be canceled) and it immediately brought back all the memories of AIM. Forget blogging, twitter and Instagram, all the embarrassing shit went down on AIM. RIP. Nate wrote a great blog back in 2017 when it finally died. If you want to walk down memory lane, this will do it.

We also talk about why we chose our AIM screen names (again, I’m an embarrassment to society) and argue about how you actually pronounce “AIM”.

PS – It’s 100000% pronounced “aim”. Just like NASA. If you said “A.I.M”, you should be banned from the internet forever.

PPS – Erika worked at AOL and said it’s pronounced “aim”. Check mate.