AIM will shut down after 20 years
5 years ago, aol still used aim internally for everything that people use slack for today. Group chats, bots, notifications for builds, etc, etc.<p>Then gradually individual teams picked up slack and within maybe 18 months, we went from 100% aim to a gigantic corporate slack team.<p>That was the end of AIM, I think.  Aol and yahoo both use gmail internally so I suspect they’re going to shitcan their email services eventually, too.<p>I think it’s remarkable how badly aol fumbled the ball on AIM twice — first by not turning it into a social network, and second by not turning it into enterprise chat.<p>All it would have taken was some investment instead of continuously laying off everyone that worked on it.