I recently had a memory come back to being on aol sometime in 2001 and chatting with someone who claimed to be from Japan. This was in an anime chat room I used to visit.

Was the service available outside the USA?

    • TipponEnglish
      2•2 months ago

      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 :)

        • TipponEnglish
          1•2 months ago

          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.