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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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[โ€“] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

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.