AIM to be taken out back and shot

AIM, Aol’s instant messaging service, is to shut down December 15 after 20 years of operation. Once a near-universal form of communication for a certain generation of internet users–even those who wouldn’t be caught dead paying for Aol’s internet service!–AIM slowly faded in the age of Google and Slack and ultimately died of corporate abuse and neglect. They are, however, collecting “Aimemories” to remember the good times by.