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Posted by Jared Benson in
12 Aug 2002 — 2:11pm
12 Aug 2002 — 2:11pm
As much as I'd love to announce some sort of custom app that we can distribute here, do many of you use AIM, iChat or another form of Instant Messenger?
Perhaps we could post our AIM handles here and create our own peer-to-peer typophlie chat free of those annoying browser-based script errors...
While at work, I'm usually using "jaredrazf"
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12 Aug 2002 — 5:33pm
I can usually be found at either "GulliverUT" or "DGThometz".
David
13 Aug 2002 — 1:47pm
brianbjharvey
13 Aug 2002 — 11:41pm
Indigotiler
with AIM, rarely use it though... It seems more common in USA than the rest of the world.
richardwikstrom@home.se
with msn messenger.
14 Aug 2002 — 9:01am
you can find me as jdura99 on AIM and jdura99@hotmail.com on MSN
14 Aug 2002 — 9:21am
TomD (tomd@prolooksports.com) is my handle on MSN. We're discouraged from installing any other software (i.e.- AIM) on our systems.
Tom
15 Aug 2002 — 12:37am
I just signed up with AIM just for you people.
(Luckily it installs without any of the messy
extensions if you pick "custom install".)
I am known as "elbowgreaser".
Stephen
15 Aug 2002 — 12:53am
Stephen, that is quite possibly the rudest "handle" I've ever heard in my life. Either that or I'm hanging around with the wrong kind of person.
15 Aug 2002 — 1:27am
Well, I don't know. Who are you hanging around with?
15 Aug 2002 — 2:12am
I think it means something else, but only in certain ummm... circles. I really am regretting posting now.
15 Aug 2002 — 2:24am
I get your drift. But I feel elbowgreasing shouldn't
be an activity limited to those of certain "circles".
We ALL need a good elbowgrease now and then.
Take that as you will.
Hmm. Now I regret posting too.
15 Aug 2002 — 2:28am
G.I.P. Grease in Peace!
15 Aug 2002 — 8:38am
rumbletummy
15 Aug 2002 — 8:49am
You guys sound like that Cats musical.
hhp
15 Aug 2002 — 11:56am
oh, I'm "typecub" on aim, by the way.
5 Nov 2003 — 11:25am
Tiff, are iChat handles visible from AIM?
5 Nov 2003 — 11:56am
I can be found as Trilligen on AIM.
Mike Gastin
5 Nov 2003 — 12:04pm
typofonderie (AIM)
5 Nov 2003 — 2:46pm
AIM: Kakaze
ICQ: 85528522
MSN: Kakaze @aol.com
I can also be found on Undernet most nights as Kakaze.
5 Nov 2003 — 3:12pm
AIM/iChat: grantsplorp
I also occasionally hang around #newton { EFnet } on IRC.
5 Nov 2003 — 4:21pm
iChat/AIM: lorpaim (often)
ICQ: 33276324 (rarely)
MSN: hotlorp@hotmail.com (rarely, and don't email me there)
Grant, what's that 'lorp' doing at the end of your AIM handle?
-- Lorp
5 Nov 2003 — 4:24pm
chefantiuser on AIM
42669052 on ICQ
evilauoytaelliwygolonhcet@hotmail.com on MSN
5 Nov 2003 — 6:23pm
For the PC people that don't want all that AOL garbage that comes with AIM, I suggest Trillian as a good multiple-instant-messaging client.
5 Nov 2003 — 8:56pm
Trillian is truely gods gift to instant messangers.
6 Nov 2003 — 2:47am
That's the beauty of Trillian. ICQ, MSN, AIM, Yahoo and IRC - all in one. And word is it'll have Jabber support soon!
22 Mar 2009 — 7:54pm
Laurence: Grant, what’s that “lorp” doing at the end of your AIM handle?
The handle is made up of “grant” and “splorp” … the latter being my online handle and primary domain name since 1996.
6 Nov 2003 — 10:13am
ICQ: 13117730
AIM: hugothictype
MSN: listaz@designaz.com.br
Using Trillian here since its first version.
6 Nov 2003 — 6:02pm
IRC!
7 Nov 2003 — 5:16am
MSN: eh_omine@hotmail.com
7 Nov 2003 — 5:32am
Hrant - you on iChat or AIM?
7 Nov 2003 — 10:09am
You're kidding, right? As if I don't spend enough time online...
Plus I get into enough trouble even when I have to think a bit before I type, much less "live".
hhp
7 Nov 2003 — 11:26am
Ha ha! Ok, fair enough. I just assumed with all the time you did spend ...
Oh well.
7 Nov 2003 — 11:32am
BTW - is there an accepted way of using AIM? For instance, I have not 'met' any of you here, but have added your names to my iChat. Is it OK to just pop in and say "Hello"?
Does one need to be introduced? I hate to be a pest as I know how I am when I am busy at work, but it would be nice to make some type related 'friends'.
Just wondering
7 Nov 2003 — 1:05pm
Maybe everyone should just agree that "i'm busy" is an acceptable response and not to be taken personally. (That's why I've held off both from joining this thread and keeping iChat turned on -- I already have plenty of procrastination aids!)
7 Nov 2003 — 2:16pm
Yes, that's what the status is for. I never IM people if they're set as 'away' or 'busy'.
I also tend to IM people to let them know I've added them to my list... it seems discourteous at the very least that you can simply add people to your list without their approval (this only happens on the AIM protocol, ICQ and MSN have their own authorisation systems).
8 Nov 2003 — 10:54am
Okay, then, I'm meredithalix (iChat/AIM)
iChatters: to be found by AIMers, don't you have to give your screen name in the form of your mac.com email address? I.e. meredithalix@mac.com ?
8 Nov 2003 — 1:13pm
iChat will work with any normal AIM account/screen name. It will also accept a ".mac" email address as a screen name, but it doesn't require one.
8 Nov 2003 — 2:47pm
That wasn't my question. If someone has a .mac account (rather than an AIM account),I think their screen name has to include "@mac.com".
9 Nov 2003 — 3:18pm
That wasn't my question. If someone has a .mac account (rather than an AIM account),I think their screen name has to include "@mac.com".
Yes, it does.
I guess my problem was that you referred to them as "iChatters" rather than "someone who has a .mac account."
9 Nov 2003 — 3:23pm
Oh yeah, mine is itchyrobot
I like the term "handle," it reminds me of truckdrivers.
9 Nov 2003 — 5:07pm
10-4, good buddy.
Now I'm just meredithalix (without the pesky "@mac.com").
9 Nov 2003 — 6:29pm
>I like the term "handle," it reminds me of truckdrivers.
I wasn't a truckdriver or a convoy-roadie, but my early teen years took place back in the CB radio heyday. My CB handle was Gronk, for no real reason other than it sounded good over a pre-amplified power mic. My Canadian citizen's band call number was XM2320537. I still remember the look on my parents faces when I drilled a hole through the wall in my closet and installed the 20 foot omnidirectional antenna on the roof of the garage.
8's and 10's on the side, y'all.
12 Aug 2002 — 9:45pm
flingford
15 Aug 2002 — 2:00am
Ahem, does that mean something else in the UK?
Not sure I want to know.
In the states it means auto mechanic (or
insinuates hard work).
5 Nov 2003 — 11:16am
I can be found as TYP3G1RL on iChat.
5 Nov 2003 — 11:41am
Yes, John, they are. I shoulda stated that. Thanks!
6 Nov 2003 — 2:39am
I suggest a small addition to that statement: "Trillian is truly
god's gift to Windows instant messengers."
Once you use iChat on a Mac, you'll want to use only it.
Too bad it doesn't work with ICQ and MSN tho. :/
7 Nov 2003 — 1:28pm
Good idea, Meredith. I second this.
9 Nov 2003 — 2:51pm
> Stephen, that is quite possibly the rudest "handle"
I've ever heard in my life. Either that or I'm hanging
around with the wrong kind of person.
Hum, everybody, I sincerely apologize for this, but
after getting SO fed up with all thinkable aliases
already taken, I got really frustrated and typed:
AIMnickssuck
It worked...
I'm really really really sorry about this (especially
because loads of times people think I'm some kinda
porn advertisement spammer...)
17 Jun 2011 — 2:54pm
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