Some 16 million people were online, and AOL chat was already buzzing with activity.
I'm nostalgic for AOL chat rooms, but would I use them if the company brought them back?
The Husky Lab experience is a bit different from the glory days of AOL Chat in more than just one way, though.
Announced Tuesday, the new version of the software incorporates a customizable news and stock ticker, tighter integration with AOL chat rooms, and a more secure registration process.
Around 2000, however, I found myself drawn more to AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) than I did to AOL's chat rooms.
AOL's chat-rooms, forums and instant messaging that underpin its dominance.
Another I-nternet attraction is the topsy-turvy farce of Microsoft lashing out at America Online for refusing to make its chat client, AOL Instant Messenger, interoperable with Microsoft's chat client, MSN Messenger.
That means millions of AOL users can't chat online with the folks on Yahoo Instant Messenger or MSN Messenger, and vice versa.
At no point has Microsoft offered to open its own chat client to AOL or anyone else -- openness only goes one way here.
The deal is the first of its kind for AOL and for Facebook, which launched its own chatting service, Facebook Chat, in 2008.
In mobile, email, its newly acquired About.me service and in its new video chat service, the company is trying to erase your memories of AOL dial-up CDs in your mailbox.
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