It’s the end of an era. AOL announced this week that it has discontinued its dial-up internet service. For younger Gen-Xers and elder millennials, in particular, the beep-boops, whirrs, and crackly ...

The fact that the company formerly known as America Online will discontinue its Dial-up service next month has prompted two kinds of reactions on the internet that it pioneered. First: Wait, AOL ...

AOL announced Friday that it is discontinuing its pioneering Instant Messenger chat platform after 20 years of service. The program will still function until Dec. 15 After that date, users won't be ...

This article is from the archive of our partner . What do we do when Gchat is down? We freak. Over and over again. We yell at the top of our lungs, which hurts, sort of, because we rarely speak aloud ...

(CNN) -- As Microsoft duels AOL for the instant messaging crown, the pressure is rising on the 20 or so active members of a nine-month-old group working on a common language for what may be the most ...

Consumer instant messaging products,most notably, AOL's Instant Messenger,have addicted millions of users who have taken their IM habit from home to work, where security concerns immediately cropped ...

When Tom, an employee at a Buffalo non-profit agency, wants to find out what his college-age kids are up to, he activates his AOL instant messaging service and carries on a real-time conversation ...