Remember When AOL Instant Messenger Was Our Facebook? 14.30K Remy Stern 05/16/11 02:28PM Filed to: Nostalgia Nostalgia Republished After bowing down to Google Talk this week, AIM is effectively dead. Most buddy lists are ghost towns. Chatters fled to Google, Skype and Facebook for their conversational needs. But at its pinnacle, AIM was something singular and amazing. [Gizmodo]