| AIM or America Online Instant Messaging is a fast, | | | | the Aim Icon. On the other hand if they are having a |
| effective and simple way to communicate on the | | | | great time, it reflects as well. |
| internet. Any two people having the software can | | | | The Origin |
| communicate instantly. Messages are relayed to and | | | | AIM picked up the idea of incorporating icons into |
| fro within a matter of microseconds. It is safe, | | | | their program from video games. They picked up the |
| private and highly used. But as any other software | | | | avatar and modified it into a miniature version called |
| program, AIM also underwent major changes and | | | | the icon or the buddy icon. What this did was that it |
| one of the biggest and best changes to ever happen | | | | gave a new lease of life to people who were bored |
| in the history of instant messaging was the | | | | with mundane text. It bought about a breath of |
| introduction of AIM Icons. | | | | freshness into the otherwise boring text based |
| AIM Icons | | | | messaging service. Now a graphical image could be |
| AIM Icons are small images with a maximum size of | | | | sent based on the user's personality or mood. Very |
| 50x50 pixels. Yet they represent a person in the | | | | soon everyone from superheroes to actors to |
| virtual world. The aim Icon is symbolic of the person | | | | cartoon characters started to feature in aim icons. |
| now. They may be the actual picture of the user or | | | | From Austin Powers to Justin Timberlake, from name |
| a graphical image representing the user. It may range | | | | based personalized AIM Icons to messages, you can |
| from animated cartoons to flashy text. Many users | | | | see them all in AIM. So if you still do not have an |
| change the AIM Icons depending on their mood. If | | | | AIM Icon till now, then go ahead and get it. |
| they are having a bad day, you may clearly see it in | | | | |