AIM is published by AOL is October 1997. It is an ad- supported service for instant messaging. It uses OSCAR messaging protocol and TOC protocol. AOL describes them as a mean of “immediate cross internet messaging”.

AIM and its users

Please make sure you have direct dial service on your line and thatyou are using a tone dial phone. Please follow these steps when making an international call:

1. Dial your Trigger Number in the U.S. for the telephone from which you are calling. This Trigger Number is a number issued to you only. Please keep it in a safe place. It is the number of our switch in the U.S., so you must dial the international exchange code tocall the U.S. from your country. For easy dialing, program your Trigger Number as a speed dial number in your phone.
2. When you hear the Trigger Number ring, hang up after one ring. No one will answer this call. Do not let the line ring more than two times, otherwise our system will not call you back.

Tired of wondering if you have enough change to place that call? Now you don’t need to hunt for coins or pay expensive airport or hotel phone rates. With our calling card, you don’t need to worry about having enough change to place your international long distance calls. Whether you are in an airport terminal or a hotel -- any touch-tone phone will do -- you can use your calling card.
The calling card will save you money and it's more convenient!

Have you ever faced this problem - Not having enough information on a certain topic, or you need a program, which you don't have installed on your computer?
Of course you have!

All of us have been in such an unpleasant situation.

If you travel, and want to be able to use international callback from a number other than the one you registered with, you can remotely reprogram your callback to ring you at a new number. This feature, called “Follow-me”, literally allows callback to follow you wherever you travel. And by using this feature, you can save money on expensive hotel or local long distance rates.

If you like, you can program your callback to be used from any location with a touch-tone phone: your hotel room, a office, or even a café that you regularly visit.

Here’s how it works:

From Home:
(1) Before you leave home, call your Callback number.