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Historical Document

These pages have sat here since 2008 with no update. In that time the AIM servers have been closed down (2017) and iChat has been superseded by Messages. That effectively make this a sort of Historical Document of how it worked.

I will make attempts to renew and refresh Links to either the most current site or use the Way Back Machine Archive so that people can at least look at what was used. I will make Edit Notes on this and on those where I can find no link to replace the older one as I go through the document.

iChat Adding Buddies

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5 Adding Buddies AIM Type

02-10-2006

This one shows the AIM type selected.

Essentially this is the same pic as the preceding picture but the drop down has been changed to Read AIM as the type of account/Screen Name your Buddy has.

Most AIM Screen Names do not include an email type suffix so there is no need to type one.

I say most because Apple are not the only web service or ISP to have a "deal" with AIM to have their email addresses recognised as a AIM ID. I have also heard of people using an email address as an ID, as the @ character is in fact a valid character as part of an AIM Screen name so it is allowed.

As I said most people chose a nickname style ID, possibly with numbers in them.

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© 2005 Ralph Johns: Edited 24/9/2005, 5/5/2006
Updated September 2006
Updated October 2008. Reviewed and Updated to HTML 5 October 2024

Information Block

This site is about iChat from Version 1 through to iChat 5.x.x
Mostly this is kept as an Historical Document. Some small tense changes have been made but the content is by and large untouched.

It has a mixture of basic info and problem solving help.

The sections below will change for Specifics about info on the page on view

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To the right you can resize or colour the page as well as choose one of three Fonts.

About This Page

This picture is included to make the point that iChat divides how you add Buddy Screen Names when you add them to the Buddy List.

This is the same picture as the preceding one with the exception that the drop down has AIM selected.

Compatibility

Much of this page has been altered to be as HTML 5 compatible as possible. This may cause issues with any of the Browser below.

I have tested in Safari 18.1, Firefox 130.x and 131.0, Vivaldi 6.9.3447.48 and iCab 6.2.3 (All Mac Browsers) I don't have access to a PC let alone multiple browsers to test on.

Previously confirmed to work with Win/IE 5.5 and later (should work in 5.0, but not confirmed), Firefox 2, Safari 3, Opera 9, iCab 3.02 and later, Mac/IE 5, Netscape 6 and later

Old browsers (IE version 4 or earlier, Netscape 4 or earlier) may only see a text-based page which, while not the prettiest option, is still entirely usable.