OMG LOL: Twitter Account Tweets Your Old AIM Away Messages

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Stephanie Haberman
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OMG LOL: Twitter Account Tweets Your Old AIM Away Messages

Remember AOL Instant Messenger?

If you were chatting online in the late 1990s and early 2000s, of course you do.

Remember what you set as your away messages? Think hard, AIMers.

New Twitter parody account YourAwayMessage remembers them all, and is sharing them with the world.

The service was an entire generation's introduction to conversing with others instantaneously on the Internet. In a way, the service acted as one of the first mainstream social networks.

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