Gus What?!

It was a year ago today that AIM Triton had its first public beta release. Back then, this event generated a lot of buzz since it had been a long time since AOL released an IM client, in any form, let-alone a complete re-write.

This beta was a major milestone in our journey that to took us well over six months to get to. Many of the components like Boxely, EE, and AIMCC had started their journey even before we did. Combined, these efforts saw their first day of light outside of AOL in this “Beta-One”.

I recall seeing members of my team on that day, myself included, constantly hitting those IM related websites like bigblueball.com, neowin.net, and slashdot.org. “Will this be AIM 6?” was one of the often asked questions. I have to say, I purposely named our executable aim6.exe but I could not bring myself to put that in the about box.

It is on this anniversary that I want to take a brief moment to thank those that helped us get there, both those who are still with us and those who have since moved on. I thank you all.