Bring back AIM! AOL Instant Messenger

Recent signers:
Corri Bardin and 16 others have signed recently.

The Issue

If you were a kid who grew up in the AOL Instant Messenger world, we already know you miss it.

We went from that, to myspace to Facebook and now every time we open our social media apps we are FLOODED with content, sales, marketing, influencing. It's impossible to connect and find the things we really care about... our friends and family near and far. 

Let's ditch the vanity, and go back to having real conversations, real chats, and the actual joy we'd feel when our favorite people would sign on and you'd here the creak of the "door" open. 

It involved creativity, connection, just realness. 

Let's petition to bring back AOL Instant Messenger, or a nice replica perhaps? But I think we'd have a better chance at bringing the original back for ALL the nostalgia. If you know you know. 

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Recent signers:
Corri Bardin and 16 others have signed recently.

The Issue

If you were a kid who grew up in the AOL Instant Messenger world, we already know you miss it.

We went from that, to myspace to Facebook and now every time we open our social media apps we are FLOODED with content, sales, marketing, influencing. It's impossible to connect and find the things we really care about... our friends and family near and far. 

Let's ditch the vanity, and go back to having real conversations, real chats, and the actual joy we'd feel when our favorite people would sign on and you'd here the creak of the "door" open. 

It involved creativity, connection, just realness. 

Let's petition to bring back AOL Instant Messenger, or a nice replica perhaps? But I think we'd have a better chance at bringing the original back for ALL the nostalgia. If you know you know. 

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Petition created on August 4, 2025