Before Texting and Facebook there was AIM and every kid who had a screen name remembers just how great it was.
Check out the list to see if you were one of those kids.
- Talking to Smarterchild and other aim robots
- Saying inappropriate things to them to try and get them mad
- Spending too much time on your away message
- Your most creative ones had song lyrics in it
- And after awhile you had a long list of saved away messages to choose from
- Using only acronyms to talk
- But being selective to who you said LYLAS to
- Using chat rooms
- Changing the order of your friend’s initials in your profile
- Picking a buddy icon from Iconator
- Picking the right color and font
- Your aim profile was truly your finest work
- Especially if you copy and pasted quotes like this one:
- Also using your profile to explain your relationship status
- Sometimes that included doing this to your crushes name – ****
- Categorizing your buddy list, only a select few made your best friends group
- Your screen name had at least one of these: x, <3, xO, or a number
- You’ve definitely hit the block button…more than once
- Hearing the door open or shut instantly made you look to your buddy list
- And every time you hoped that it was the person you liked signing on
- Frequently changing the AIM notification sounds, the cow mooing was a classic
- Going through your chat boxes to see which one was blinking
- Comparing how many buddies you had to your friend’s buddy list
- Knowing the yellow notepad next to someone’s screen name meant they were Away
- Occasionally going invisible so you can just talk to your best friend
- Frequently yelling to find out who picked up the phone and knocked you offline
