21 Things Anybody Under 16 Won't Believe About How We Used The Internet

AIM

AOL Instant Messenger was a type of internet software that one would have had to have installed onto a new computer. It was the predecessor to MSN Messenger and worked very similarly. Back in the 90s, it was the ‘cool’ thing to create a practically indecipherable username (mixing it up with capital letters, numbers, and symbols) so that strangers would not know your actual name. Although eventually, people got pretty good at remembering which of their friends belonged to which fancy username.