The Old Shoebox: Download original AIM and AIM+ here

A lot of people just haven’t gotten used to the new AOL Instant Messenger style. It’s completely different after all, and functionality or not, many people just want to chat — not video conference, not voice chat, just :) and lol and brb their nearest and dearest Internet friends.

So I dug deep into 15 years worth of archives and saving just about every file and found an old version of Instant Messenger from 2000 believed to be AIM 4.x.

Enjoy:

  AIM 4.x (1.9 MiB, 564 hits)
You need to be a registered user to download this file.

Also, here’s AIM+

  AIM+ (198.3 KiB, 350 hits)
You need to be a registered user to download this file.


Happy Retro-AIMing!

Wikipedia’s list of AIM versions:

  • AIM 1.5.234, with an unknown release date (for various Linux distributions)
  • AIM 1.5.286, with an unknown release date (for various Linux distributions)
  • AIM 4.3, with an unknown release date (for Mac OS 8.6 and earlier)
  • AIM 4.3.2229, released in 2000, included with Netscape Communicator.
  • AIM 4.7.1333, released on February 18, 2004 (for Mac OS X and Mac OS 9)
  • AIM 4.8.2790, released on November 26, 2001 (for Windows 95)
  • AIM 5.0.2829, released in September 2002 (for Windows 98/NT4/ME/2000/XP)
  • AIM 5.1.3101, released in November 2002 (for Windows 98/NT4/ME/2000/XP)
  • AIM 5.2.3292, released in July 2003 (for Windows 98/NT4/ME/2000/XP)
  • AIM 5.5.3595, released in May 2004 (for Windows 98/NT4/ME/2000/XP)
  • AIM 5.9.3702, September 2004 (for Windows 98/NT4/ME/2000/XP)
  • AIM 5.9.3797, unknown release date (for Windows 98/NT4/ME/2000/XP)
  • AIM 5.9.3844, unknown release date (for Windows 98/NT4/ME/2000/XP)
  • AIM 5.9.3857, unknown release date (for Windows 98/NT4/ME/2000/XP)
  • AIM 5.9.6089, released on August 31, 2006 (for Windows 98/NT4/ME/2000/XP)
  • AIM 6.0.28.1, unknown release date (for Windows 2000/XP/XP/Vista x64)
  • AIM 6.1.32.1, released on March 27, 2007 (for Windows 2000/XP/XP/Vista x64)
  • AIM 6.1.41.2, released on May 3, 2007 for Windows 2000/XP/XP/Vista x64)
  • AIM 6.5.4.16, released on October 10, 2007 for Windows 2000/XP/XP/Vista x64)
  • AIM Pro 1.3 build 260, released on November 1, 2006 (for Windows 2000/XP)
  • AIM Express, unknown release date, online version.
  • AIM ET / LAIM / AIM Lite 0.31 Beta, released on June 9, 2007 (for Windows 2000/XP/Vista)

And if you’re really interested in retro instant messaging, check out the World’s Slowest Instant Messenger.

John Guilfoil is the editor-in-chief of Blast Magazine. He can be reached at guilfoil.j@blastmagazine.com.

In Downloads, Full Programs, Technology, The Old Shoebox on November 7, 2007 at 00:04

One Response to “The Old Shoebox: Download original AIM and AIM+ here”

  1. teressa on January 24th, 2008 8:16 am

    this was fast easy and i love it!

Got something to say?





Note: This post is over a year old. You may want to check later on in Blast to see if there is new information relevant to your comment.

Creative Commons License Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional

Blast is the Online Magazine