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AIM brought instant messaging to the masses, teaching skills for modern communication

  • Written by Nicholas Bowman, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, West Virginia University
imageThe AOL Instant Messenger icon became so well known it was made into a plush toy.KW Reinsch, CC BY-NC

Toward the mid-1990s, America Online (by then going by its nickname, AOL) was the company through which most Americans accessed the internet. As many as half of the CD-ROMs produced at the time bore the near-ubiquitous AOL logo, offering early...

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