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7 unusual facts about AOL Instant Messenger


AOL Instant Messenger

ZolaOnAOL and ZoeOnAOL were short lived bots that ultimately retired their features in favor of SmarterChild.

Some are made to relate to children and teenagers, like Spleak, others give advice, and others are for more general purposes, such as SmarterChild.

Faith Bible High School

In February 2001, a student at the high school received a threat via AOL Instant Messenger, threatening to kill the student at school.

Raptr

The client, which is a downloadable application for Microsoft Windows, supports AIM, Yahoo! Instant Messenger, GTalk, Windows Live Messenger, Xfire, ICQ, and Facebook Chat protocols and allows users to import their Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, and Steam accounts.

SMS gateway

AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) version 5.2 and above has support for sending SMS messages for free.

Voice font

Certain Macintosh clients of instant messaging services such as AOL Instant Messenger have had the option of reading incoming messages using the system's voice fonts.

Yamigo

Once registered, Yamigo users can use their mobile phones to text-talk with each other, and they can also chat with their buddies on Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ.


Bombusmod

It is also possible to interact with proprietary instant messaging networks such as ICQ, Yahoo!, Microsoft Messenger service or AIM through the use of "transports" (requires server-side support).

Fix8

Users can dress up in virtual costumes or create their own, or share animated videos live over instant-message services including MSN, Yahoo, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and Skype.

MetaCreations

Viewpoint Corporation was best known for the Viewpoint Media Player installed inside AIM/AOL packages to help provide better 3D visualization for product tours and configurators on the web.

Samsung SCH-U700

The Instant Messaging providers that the phone has are AOL Instant Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, and Yahoo! Messenger.


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