Comments on: Why I stopped using AIM… http://nsdl.library.cornell.edu/websites/expertvoices/info2040/archives/2514 This is a supplemental blog for a course which will cover how the social, technological, and natural worlds are connected, and how the study of networks sheds light on these connections. Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:25:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Ben Pu http://nsdl.library.cornell.edu/websites/expertvoices/info2040/archives/2514#comment-1481 Ben Pu Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:14:02 +0000 http://nsdl.library.cornell.edu/websites/expertvoices/info2040/archives/2514#comment-1481 On a note unrelated to networks, one of the issues with AIM (Triton, and other editions) -- is their integration of old Microsoft browsers. Rather than including their own viewer, AIM uses IE6 to view any html content -- which unfortunately means that any worms that IE6 can catch, so can AIM. Still, most people in the US use AIM, and network effects make it hard to avoid. gChat integrates AIM now though -- as do 3rd party clients like pidgin, trillian, and meebo.com Don't give up on AIM just yet! On a note unrelated to networks, one of the issues with AIM (Triton, and other editions) — is their integration of old Microsoft browsers. Rather than including their own viewer, AIM uses IE6 to view any html content — which unfortunately means that any worms that IE6 can catch, so can AIM.

Still, most people in the US use AIM, and network effects make it hard to avoid. gChat integrates AIM now though — as do 3rd party clients like pidgin, trillian, and meebo.com

Don’t give up on AIM just yet!

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