Comments on: AIM 6.8: Real-Time Instant Messaging

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:06:23 +0000

ICQ did this at the very beginning and there is a reason they got rid of it…. it is useless. Starting the article with “AOL is embarking on new ground with their next milestone release of the AOL Instant Messenger (AIM).” shows your lack of research. This is how the first public IM client worked in the beginning until they realized it was the wrong way to go… for AOL to bring it back over 10 years later shows their lack of innovation.

Well, AOL is embarking on new ground. They themselves haven't done this before. I did acknowledge that ICQ did this before in the article.

The How-To Geek wrote:

I remember the ICQ days… made it more painful to talk to a slow typist, because instead of just alt-tabbing away from the window until they respond, you sat there and waited for them to type. Awful!

Ha, that thought didn't even cross my mind. I guess it would make you smarter trying to predict what they are going to type. :)

Patrick wrote:

I think it would be fun to try out, but I definitely wouldn’t use it all the time.

That was my initial thought as well. It's one of those things that you say "hey, check this out." And then you never use it again.

By: netster007x

netster007x — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:15:23 +0000

Seems like it would be a lot more of an annoyance than anything else to me too.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:03:20 +0000

I think it would be fun to try out, but I definitely wouldn’t use it all the time.

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:58:57 +0000

I’m with dkong. I don’t know how many times I’ve typed something inappropriate for the situation and reconsidered before I finished, or how many atrocious typos have never seen the light of day because I had time to catch them. I don’t think there’s really a consistent situation where I would use a feature like this.

By: The How-To Geek

The How-To Geek — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:28:36 +0000

I don’t think I’d ever use this.

I remember the ICQ days… made it more painful to talk to a slow typist, because instead of just alt-tabbing away from the window until they respond, you sat there and waited for them to type. Awful!

By: dkong

dkong — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:43:08 +0000

HELLLLLL NO.

Oh man, how many times I’ve typed in something horridly inappropriate and then decided not to send it….

So no, I wouldn’t ever use this feature.

By: Change

Change — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:36:34 +0000

I’ve used it VERY shortly on ICQ in the beginning as well. Seemed like fun, but got annoying really quickly.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:02:53 +0000

ICQ did this at the very beginning and there is a reason they got rid of it…. it is useless. Starting the article with “AOL is embarking on new ground with their next milestone release of the AOL Instant Messenger (AIM).” shows your lack of research. This is how the first public IM client worked in the beginning until they realized it was the wrong way to go… for AOL to bring it back over 10 years later shows their lack of innovation.

By: CoryC

CoryC — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:22:15 +0000

I would think AOL would be trying to invent NEW features instead of adding old ones. Oh well.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:51:27 +0000

I remember ICQ being able to do that long ago. I found it to be annoying.