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AIM was hugely important to my college social life. Away messages were how we coordinated. Adium was my first foray into open source.
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I had friends submit last lines to silly limericks. I wrote scripts to do polls, show news headlines, and graph the weather.
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I also “invented Twitter” when I wrote a script to automatically post my away messages to a blog for posterity. noleli.blogspot.com
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Sadly, I didn’t do that till the end of 2005. I have chat logs going back to 2003, though. That’s embarrassing.
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Away messages were so different, though. They were transient. You could change it without cluttering people’s feeds. twitter.com/Noleli/statuses/5200746860
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Away message, 2004-04-30: “thefacebook․com is cool. Do it. Oh yeah, and buddyzoo․com. Social networks are cool.” We were so naïve 😂
