A year or so ago I was having a conversation with a friend when we both realized that the AOL Instant Messenger had really lost its place in our lives. For some the Yahoo! program was more prevalent. Regardless of your preference, there was a time when you simply expected everyone to be available by IM. Companies utilized it, family members, friends, and flirting via AIM even seemed to take on its own form.
Today, it is dead. Gone with AOL and Compuserve. Replaced by the less geographically restrictive text messages, and the more hip Facebook. If I were to purchase a new computer today it would not even occur to me to download an IM program of any sort. In fact, it is amusing to log on and remember what it was like.
As Dorothy may say, “My, things come and go quickly here”….
