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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: [download id=”3″]

Also, here’s AIM+
[download id=”4″]
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.

About The Author

John M. Guilfoil

John Guilfoil is the editor-in-chief of Blast: Boston's Online Magazine and the Blast Magazine Network. He can be reached at [email protected]. Tweet @johnguilfoil.

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