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AIM’s ‘running man’ icon comes to a stop
November 21, 2011 at 11:22 am by Dwight Silverman
For years, AOL has used a the cartoon figure of a yellow, running man as a brand mark. The symbol graced the millions of floppy disks and then CDs that the company mailed out in its heyday, and in 2009 was entered into the Madison Avenue В Advertising Walk of Fame.
But AOL’s man is running no more. The company long ago dropped the logo for the AOL brand, but it was still present for AOL Instant Messenger, or AIM. Last week AOL released a preview version of AIM that no longer includes the running man. Instead, it uses what Business Insider called an “awful corporate typeface”.
If you need a running-man fix, you still find him on the download page for the primary release of AIM. It’s safe to assume, though, that once the new software exits its testing phase, the running man will be gone for good.
Then again, maybe not. We hear he was lured away from AOL and is now working for Google, where he no longer has to run all the time . . .
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