

A version for Symbian OS was announced in 2003 and others for BlackBerry and Windows Mobile Īfter 2012, stand-alone official AIM client software includes advertisements and was available for Microsoft Windows, Windows Mobile, Classic Mac OS, macOS, Android, iOS, BlackBerry OS. Third-party applications allowed it to be used in 2002 for the Sidekick. Official mobile versions of AIM appeared as early as 2001 on Palm OS through the AOL application. This does not include other instant messaging software related to or developed by AOL, such as ICQ and iChat. At one time, the software had the largest share of the instant messaging market in North America, especially in the United States (with 52% of the total reported as of 2006 ). AIM was an outgrowth of "online messages" in the original platform written in PL/1 on a Stratus computer by Dave Brown. In May 1997, AIM was released unceremoniously as a stand-alone download for Microsoft Windows.
AIM DEFINITION ANDROID
Microsoft Windows, Windows Mobile, macOS, Android, iOS, BlackBerry OS, Android TVĪIM ( AOL Instant Messenger) was an instant messaging and presence computer program created by AOL, which used the proprietary OSCAR instant messaging protocol and the TOC protocol to allow registered users to communicate in real time.ĪIM was popular by the late 1990s, in United States and other countries, and was the leading instant messaging application in that region into the following decade.
