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Ah mystery solved then. I remember them being really into The White Stripes, so probably a western weeb.
you could get AIM without having AOL dialup iirc
Was that always the case? I remember aim being an app a couple years after I had left aol and I still used it but I wasn't sure if early on it was.
The AIM protocal (oscar???) was spun off around 2000 and could be used outside of AOL with the AIM client or a 3rd party utility.
I'm sure it was earlier than that. I'm in the UK, and I'm pretty sure I was using it at home in the mid 90s, and almost definitely when I was living away in 1998. I remember using Trillian to speak on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and a few others around the same time :)
Trillian launched in 2000.
I must be thinking of one of the other chat programs then, Pidgin maybe? I could have sworn it was Trillian though.
I remember using some form of AIM after I moved in to my first place in 1998, because I was keeping in touch with friends on it without having the full AOL software installed.
to add to bortsampson, I know I had an aim acct in the early oughts and I never had the dialup