For anyone inside the generation for which AOL was synonymous with the internet, and AIM was prerequisite to any social life at all, some pretty sad news: AOL just sacked its IM team. The old king of chat is paraplegic. The NYT's Nick Bilton reports the mass canning:.
The AOL Instant Messenger group took the deepest cut so far.
2DayBlog.com, AIM is dead, unofficially of course
