I was in my freshman year of college, and one day my best friend called me on the phone and told me to download "AOL instant messenger".

有一天，我的一个最要好的朋友打电话给我，告诉我下载一个“美国在线实时信息传递”的聊天软件。

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Around 2000, however, I found myself drawn more to AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) than I did to AOL's chat rooms.

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He is not a big phone person and only wanted to talk over AOL instant messenger.

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He called it ZuckNet, and it was basically a primitive version of AOL Instant Messenger, which came out the following year.

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