AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) Golf Balls
1.7" / 6 pcs
$29.99
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Take a bit of desktop-era internet history onto the fairway with AOL Instant Messenger golf balls. AIM turned screen names, buddy lists, and away messages into everyday social rituals for a generation of users. Beginning as a stand-alone Windows download in 1997, the service became one of the most recognizable names in online messaging before ending in 2017. A playful collectible for golfers, tech fans, and devotees of early web culture.
AOL Instant Messenger, commonly known as AIM and sometimes styled as aim, was AOL's instant messaging and presence-information program. It launched in May 1997 as a stand-alone download for Microsoft Windows and operated until December 15, 2017. AIM grew from the original platform's “online messages,” written in PL/1 on a Stratus computer by Dave Brown. Using AOL's proprietary OSCAR protocol, with TOC available for simpler clients, it enabled real-time communication through screen names, buddy lists, status information, and away messages. AIM became especially popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s, with teens and college students using away messages to share updates, locations, jokes, and plans. Its market position later declined as SMS, Google Talk, social-network messaging, iMessage, and WhatsApp expanded. AOL acquired ICQ in 1998 and competed with services including Yahoo! Messenger and MSN Messenger. Verizon Communications acquired AOL in June 2015, then combined AOL and Yahoo into Oath Inc. in June 2017; that business is now called Yahoo. AOL discontinued AIM later that year.
Get your audience in the zone with these personalized golf balls. Available in budget-friendly six packs, these golf balls are made with 100% surlyn. Your artwork, photos, or names go on all six balls, in vivid detail and color.
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) Golf Balls
$29.99
Sale price
$29.99
Regular price
| 1.7" | |
|---|---|
| Diameter, in | 1.68 |
Take a bit of desktop-era internet history onto the fairway with AOL Instant Messenger golf balls. AIM turned screen names, buddy lists, and away messages into everyday social rituals for a generation of users. Beginning as a stand-alone Windows download in 1997, the service became one of the most recognizable names in online messaging before ending in 2017. A playful collectible for golfers, tech fans, and devotees of early web culture.
AOL Instant Messenger, commonly known as AIM and sometimes styled as aim, was AOL's instant messaging and presence-information program. It launched in May 1997 as a stand-alone download for Microsoft Windows and operated until December 15, 2017. AIM grew from the original platform's “online messages,” written in PL/1 on a Stratus computer by Dave Brown. Using AOL's proprietary OSCAR protocol, with TOC available for simpler clients, it enabled real-time communication through screen names, buddy lists, status information, and away messages. AIM became especially popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s, with teens and college students using away messages to share updates, locations, jokes, and plans. Its market position later declined as SMS, Google Talk, social-network messaging, iMessage, and WhatsApp expanded. AOL acquired ICQ in 1998 and competed with services including Yahoo! Messenger and MSN Messenger. Verizon Communications acquired AOL in June 2015, then combined AOL and Yahoo into Oath Inc. in June 2017; that business is now called Yahoo. AOL discontinued AIM later that year.
Get your audience in the zone with these personalized golf balls. Available in budget-friendly six packs, these golf balls are made with 100% surlyn. Your artwork, photos, or names go on all six balls, in vivid detail and color.
.: Material: Suryln cover + rubber/hard plastic core
.: One size: 1.68" (4.3cm)
.: A pack of 6 golf balls
.: One design for the whole set
EU representative: HONSON VENTURES LIMITED, gpsr@honsonventures.com, 3, Gnaftis House flat 102, Limassol, Mesa Geitonia, 4003, CY
Product information: Generic brand, 2 year warranty in EU and Northern Ireland as per Directive 1999/44/EC
Care instructions: Wipe clean with warm water and mild soap