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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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[–] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Poor developing country in Asia, late 1990s-early 2000s. Yes we had AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger. The latter two were far more popular than AIM though.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh nice I didn't know about AIM! I knew ICQ was big in Asia though, right?

[–] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

Yes most people used ICQ and then MSN Messenger became popular by the mid-2000s onward.