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I recently had a memory come back to being on aol sometime in 2001 and chatting with someone who claimed to be from Japan. This was in an anime chat room I used to visit.

Was the service available outside the USA?

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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

you could get AIM without having AOL dialup iirc

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

to add to bortsampson, I know I had an aim acct in the early oughts and I never had the dialup