AOL Instant Messenger
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Can also be used as a verb (ex: "aim me the url plz")
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[edit] Clients
[edit] Pidgin
An open source version of AOL Instant Messenger. Thus, it sucks and is perfect for UNIX whores, fans of Mozilla Firefox, and Communists. Used to be called GAIM until AOL pwned them in court. Now the mascot is a big gay purple bird, and subsequently Pidgin is now the IM of choice for fags and furries!
Gained dramatic notoriety Last Thursday when AOL stopped caring about privacy, much to the dismay of the internets in general.
- [1] - Project homepage
- goatse.ca - Goatse
- adiumx.com - A Gay Mac program that uses libgaim + teledildonics
[edit] Trillian
Trillian is an instant messaging program which can connect to AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, MSN and IRC, allowing for faster, more widespread distribution of lulz as well as rapid cross-pollination between the networks.
It has a horrible habit of taking people's contact lists without their consent.
It also has a vast array of smileys, some with audio effects, which can be used like a pictographic language to represent some pretty sick shit. This feature inspires an amazing amount of loyalty among its userbase.
[edit] Examples of Trillicon hieroglyphics
Now with the two symbols most fundamental to all human communication, more complex pictographic phrases, concepts and sentences can be built by expanding the vocabulary.
Many but not all concepts expressed in Trillicon hieroglyphics involve actions by one or two individuals. With one individual, the pictographic concept is read left to right, with the icon signifying the individual at the right. With two individuals, the individuals are on the left and right, with the action-related icons between them.
In more complex pictographic sentences in which an individual receives something as the result of an action or performs more than one action, the item received or the secondary action may be placed "outside" — on the opposite side from the norm — of the icon representing the individual.
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-- note the "money" icon is to the left of the hooker.
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-- a blumpkin. ( represents a steaming pile of shit according to Trillicon hieroglyphic best practices, or in this case, the verb "to shit.")
The passage of time can also be represented in Trillicon pictographic sentences, either by simply repeating groups of phrases, or by adding the 
icon in between each phrase group. Time progressions can also be punctuated by a verb icon rather than nothing or the icon. In the example below, both demarcations of time passage are used.
This phrase effectively conveys an angry alcoholic's beer goggles — quite a step up in complexity from a simple cock n' balls!
Many Trillicons are sent by enclosing a word in parentheses, for example, (pig) or (squirrel). If an appropriate Trillicon does not exist to convey a concept pictographically, users will often simply enclose the word in parentheses as if it did exist:
- neurophyre:
- neurophyre: okay that's the reality of doubleteaming
- neurophyre:
and that's fantasy
- khelair: (rohypnol)
a better reality
- neurophyre: *guffaw*
- khelair:
- neurophyre: (pill)
- neurophyre: fuck
- khelair: (meds)
- neurophyre:
hmm that's vaguely pill-like. 
- neurophyre: (rohypnol)
- neurophyre: SMOKE WHILE YOU ARE DOING SO
The above chat log also illustrates two other important uses of Trillicons: adding emphasis (usually 
is used for this, as it also includes the sound of a drumroll) and enhancing lulz. The primary lulz-related icons are 
, 
, 
and 
. The last three include the sound of an innocent child laughing. This can directly enhance any lulz being had during a conversation -- audible proof is available here.
[edit] Trillian = b&
Using this hieroglyphic code in #ed will get you repeatedly b& for not sounding enough like the other kids at the lunchtable:
<Pokchu> anyway <Pokchu> you gonna stop being a cunt <ah-pon> you gonna get your idle finger off the button, fag? <ah-pon> want an apology? <Pokchu> i.e. trilly speak and flooding with useless shit <neurophyre> LMAO <ah-pon> kiss my puckered hole <Pokchu> ah-pon: not really <ah-pon> okay hold on a sec <ah-pon> i feel an apology coming up <Pokchu> um <neurophyre> goddamn i am glad that fucking cat sound attracted me back to this window :) <ah-pon> (&)i am so sorry plz don't ever ban me again(drums) <Destroyer> unfunny inbound? <neurophyre> ahahahaha <Jawsome> ........ <feem> ops plz *** Mode change "+o feem" for channel #ed by Pokchu <ah-pon> bibi <feem> ty <mahoneeee> lol purp drank <Pokchu> np *** Mode change "+b *!*damo@*.midco.net" for channel #ed by feem <neurophyre> aw shit
[edit] Miranda IM
Another open-source (And therefore another suck-ass) client. Has a tiny GUI, so you can lose your buddy list, and then go blind trying to read it once you've found it. It also has a tendency to crash when you're in the middle of a conversation. Another useful feature, or lack thereof, is the inability to block people. Thus, you will constantly be having conversations with Javier14895018351 about how great "FreE_V-iA-gRa!!!" is.
[edit] Digsby
Currently in beta, Digsby integrates Facebook and MySpace (but not Myspace IM) so you're updated instantly when someone posts a bulletin or sends you a friend request. THANK GOD.
[edit] Other Clients
- The one you can download from AOL
- Thousands of no-name "more features!" clients that are really just backdoors for Spyware
- Adium
[edit] Competing Networks
- Yahoo
- MSN
- ICQ (No one uses this shit srsly)
- Jabber (Used by even fewer people than ICQ)
- Google - well, not really. But Google has been steadily ruining every other e-entity's shit for the past few years, so it's only a matter of time.
Edit: Surprise! This is true. - Goatse
- Meebo.com
- gaysinglesonline.com
[edit] See Also
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