DeadAIM
DeadAIM (originally De-Ad AIM) was a program created by James Dennis and Sean Heiney to add new features such as tabbed browsing (which is now available in standard AIM) and to disable the advertising in AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). The last release of DeadAIM was version 4.5 in 2003, which works with AIM version 5.5.3595.
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