![]() ![]() Others like Anne Johnson of Moorhead selected their screen name because of their music taste. "When I went to college and got AIM, some friends referred to me and another friend (whose name was actually Phil) as 'Uncle Phil and Aunt Vivian'," Welle Nere says. ![]() ![]() Nicole Welle Nere of Fargo chose "ViviAnn83" because of her friends' shared affinity for "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," an '90s sitcom starring Will Smith. Screen names reflected a passion or interest, paired with numerals most often reflecting a person's birth year.īreanne Schlindwein Allmaras of Fargo says she has no idea why she picked "midnitecowgirl44" while Britta Solberg of Minneapolis says her screen name, "Cowgurl30," reflects her experience of growing up on a farm near the Wild Rice River. When it launched, more than 100 million users added their friends' creatively-crafted screen names to their ever-expanding "buddy" lists. In 1997, AIM set fire to now commonplace practice of communicating via instant messenger.īefore there was Facebook Messenger, iMessage, Skype, SnapChat or even MSN Messenger, AIM ruled the online communication world. FARGO - American online's messenger - known as AIM to its once-loyal users - says "G2G" (got to go) and takes its final bow today after 20 years of virtually connecting people. ![]()
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