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I believe they had international numbers but they weren't like a major presence outside of the US.
Ah mystery solved then. I remember them being really into The White Stripes, so probably a western weeb.
you could get AIM without having AOL dialup iirc
Was that always the case? I remember aim being an app a couple years after I had left aol and I still used it but I wasn't sure if early on it was.
I'm sure it was earlier than that. I'm in the UK, and I'm pretty sure I was using it at home in the mid 90s, and almost definitely when I was living away in 1998. I remember using Trillian to speak on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and a few others around the same time :)
Trillian launched in 2000.
I must be thinking of one of the other chat programs then, Pidgin maybe? I could have sworn it was Trillian though.
I remember using some form of AIM after I moved in to my first place in 1998, because I was keeping in touch with friends on it without having the full AOL software installed.
to add to bortsampson, I know I had an aim acct in the early oughts and I never had the dialup
They were pretty big in the UK in the 90s too 👍
Oh no shit. Did they flood your mailbox with floppies and CDs too?
I don't remember them sending out floppies, but the CDs were everywhere. I'm fairly sure that they mailed them out, but they definitely put them in newspapers and magazines. My parents had AOL dialup, so I'd get a CD every now and then to update the software :)