"I’ve been a loyal @AOL user since the 90s. Most of my jr high girl drama was carried out over AIM. I’ve stuck with them even when people give me a hard time about it," Ashlee Hightower wrote ...

Long before we had umpteen different online profiles, there was AIM. In the heady days of 1997, when AOL Instant Messenger came into the world, there was nothing else like it. Conceived within the ...