The AIM thingy

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Apparently ILXOR has some kind of mass chat thing on AOL vaguely regular-ish - having finally managed to get meself an AIM account (AIM does not like the computer at home), how do I go about getting involved in this?

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 19:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Put "dubplatestyle" on your buddy list and start asking him if there's a chat going on.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 19:09 (twenty-three years ago)

A very good starting point. Otherwise, wait for me to have one of my fits and invite everyone into a massive chat all at once.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 19:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the mass chats happen at like 4-6am UK time.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 19:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Ohhh.

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 19:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, it might be easier if people add me cos I'm AIM'ing via Trillian, and Trillian is shite despite the bleatings of BURN's webmonkey.

The username would be mrswygart, BTW.

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 19:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I generally welcome such invites too (though not in the middle of the night, UK time): MartinHSkidmore - I note it on my profile here.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 19:34 (twenty-three years ago)

put "dubplatestyle" on yr buddylist and wonder why i never appear.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 19:46 (twenty-three years ago)

aquariushaha

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 19:49 (twenty-three years ago)

(strictly for ilxors hence the 'haha' - everyone else i know is on icq)

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 19:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I am using Buglebear2002 these days. I log about once every other week :/

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 19:52 (twenty-three years ago)

4am-6am UK time??? Don't you guys ever sleep??? I wd scarcely be able to string a sentence together at that time of the morning, I'm afraid.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 20:22 (twenty-three years ago)

oh, I'm just speculating, coz I've never been awake at that time, but it would be around 10-2am in the US. As IM ILX is more US led.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 20:25 (twenty-three years ago)

also: we never sleep, because sleep is the cousin of death.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 20:26 (twenty-three years ago)

God I hate that line.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 20:38 (twenty-three years ago)

ilx isn't a nice place, off your face.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 20:55 (twenty-three years ago)

kindofinlove, Christopher/William type person.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 21:16 (twenty-three years ago)

DivineComedian42, in case you ever need anyone to beat (Divine Comedy *and* Douglas Adams- how disingenous can you get?)

― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 21:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Still TomFT26 but I'm not on much these days (a slight increase recently though, I'm groping back towards sociability)

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 21:34 (twenty-three years ago)

still doorag000000 & i have started going on the thing a bit more again recently

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 04:46 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm on now but only unsolicited porno creeps wanna talk to me

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 04:54 (twenty-three years ago)

the handle is rococolette. but no one ever wants to talk to me.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 17 October 2002 01:50 (twenty-two years ago)

not even unsolicited porno creeps huh?

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Thursday, 17 October 2002 03:17 (twenty-two years ago)

No porno creeps (at least they didn't reveal themselves as such to me), but several people did respond to my cri de coeur last night. Thank you.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 17 October 2002 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

i am rarely on anymore... unheard music? i think that's it.

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 18 October 2002 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)

AIM and my pc don't seem to agree with each other so i use yahoo messenger although that's far from problem free.

― leigh (leigh), Friday, 18 October 2002 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah i got that too but i never use it

― unknown (doorag), Friday, 18 October 2002 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I am kludge450, sometimes.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 01:37 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm only ever on if i'm at duane's, which isn't often, but when i am i'm lucylurex.

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 01:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't seen an ILX chat going on for ages. I'm pansyriots.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 05:12 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

'auf zur disko'

― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 22 December 2002 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

icy blend and now I LOVE frappucinos. It was just the dumbest name I could find originally.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 22 December 2002 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

my name is the sae as my email name, since i crave 4 stability in this terrifying werld, or because im a lazy schlump

― Vic (Vic), Sunday, 22 December 2002 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Obv not THE dumbest, I'm not "Mr POOFACE" or anything, but PRETTY DUMB esp considering my SCENE at the time.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 22 December 2002 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

mr pooface is a great name, i might have to sign up that one

― ron (ron), Sunday, 22 December 2002 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I betcha it's gone already!

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 22 December 2002 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

buglebear 2002

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 22 December 2002 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

aw jel, you know you took mr. pooface! damn you, damn you to hell and back ;-)

my FUNNY NAME is HuggelzexBot

did anyone see "Mimic"?? Mr. FunnyShoes!! that would be a great name

― ron (ron), Sunday, 22 December 2002 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

dammit, mr funnyshoes was gone, as was mr funnyshoez

I AM NOW MR FUNNYSHOOZ

― ron (ron), Sunday, 22 December 2002 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

ron are you on now?

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 22 December 2002 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, MrFunnyShooz

― ron (ron), Sunday, 22 December 2002 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Does anyone else add names to their buddy list that they make up?

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 23 December 2002 01:10 (twenty-two years ago)

i generally add names that other people have made up. the names i make up seem to be growing into a complicated (yet sensitive!) AIM meta-persona that we can refer to as "The RonnyShoozBot" (second place = huggelshooz longjohns)

― ron (ron), Monday, 23 December 2002 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)

talking of the AIM thingy. How do I find out what my screen name is for iChat in Mac OSX 10.2?

― Ed (dali), Monday, 23 December 2002 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

It's either your .mac email address (eg dtcd@mac.com), or whatever you set up with AOL.

― Graham (graham), Monday, 23 December 2002 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

My AIM name is Homosexual II

― Mandee, Monday, 23 December 2002 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)

that sounds like a fancy resort a la hedonism II

― ron (ron), Tuesday, 24 December 2002 01:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I always feel like I harass Martin Skidmore on IM and I'd like to take this opportunity to apologise to anyone, and Martin in particular, who I've annoyed by messaging them (except Jess, because he hates me so it's only fair) over the short time that I have.

― dwh (dwh), Sunday, 5 January 2003 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

That does include you, Ronan.

― dwh (dwh), Sunday, 5 January 2003 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I am buglebear2003 now, but I'm not on AIM, coz I'm gonna watch darts in a minute. If there is a group chat or whatever you should invite me.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 5 January 2003 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm always pleased to hear from you, David!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 6 January 2003 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

Is anyone in an AIM chat now? If so can you invite me back please; I;m not sure how/why I left but I got invited to another room and it usurped the ILX one...

NickJSouthall (my AIm 'handle')

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 26 June 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

Hey i have just got aim, who's on?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 21 July 2003 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey Pinkpanther, I'm not, but hopefully I'll get to chat to you soon. I'm markelby when I'm on.

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 21 July 2003 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey mark, just a friendly warning, u have been added to the list! heh heh!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

pinkpanther, im chrisv1918. no one ever invites me to chat though... :(

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 10:51 (twenty-two years ago)

But u gotta be online to chat kiddo!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah i know, i can't chat from here. AIM is not allowed at work. I usually go on when I get home around 4pm.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh right, sorry!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

dammit, there is something flashing over the AIM icon in my system tray. I can't tell what it is or what it means, and it seems to be making no difference but it is uberannoying. It looks like a grey rectangle with, on the top left corner, a tiny red triangle or heart attached. Anyone know anything about this?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 9 January 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

awww. you're just crazy is all.

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 9 January 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

it means you're gonna die

― jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 9 January 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

one day

― jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 9 January 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

ILE, ladies and gentlemen.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 9 January 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

take my AIM name off this damn thread!!

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Monday, 9 January 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

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