# AIM triton

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/aim-triton/164963>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [October 6, 2005, 12:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/aim-triton/164963 "2005-10-06T12:51:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@nobody](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nobody)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 12:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/aim-triton/164963/1 "2005-10-06T12:51:43Z")

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Looks like AOL is working on a non-crappy version of AIM. How exciting. Less obtrusive ads, tabbed chats, sexy interface. Slightly confusing - but hey, it’s new and less sucky. I used it for a bit before school this morning and I was impressed with what I saw. I’ve been dreading what the next incarnation of AIM would look like for a while now because each subsequent release gets more ugly and more bloated. It’s nice to see them taking a different route.

If you take the tour it says something along the lines of “We don’t target your ads based on what you e-mail. That would be creepy.” I love google but I thought that was a pretty funny jab they took at them. 😛

Check it out guys it looks somewhat promising. There’s even new ugly smilies to replace my beloved little pixely dude(tte)s. Good for most of you, bad for me ☹

Link!  
[http://www.aim.com/get\_aim/win/win\_beta.adp?aolp=](http://www.aim.com/get_aim/win/win_beta.adp?aolp=)  
(Beta - WinXP only)