Word: ims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...every day is judgment day, thanks to instant messaging and the in-your-face presence of its address book (the "buddy list") on computer desktops. The software offers real-time chat with friends, family or co-workers who are online, as most now seem to be. Instant messaging, or IM, in fact, handles more missives each day than the U.S. Postal Service. Besides relying on it to evaluate their popularity levels, teenagers use IM to swap homework tips and gossip; Internet start-ups employ it in lieu of a long-distance budget; home users love it for all those times...
...what Cabot House students see as the establishment of a dynasty, the House's intramural (IM) sports team took home its fifth straight Straus Cup, given annually to the House with the most IM points...
...beginning of the year, it was a three-way battle with Lowell [House] and Pforzheimer [House]," said Susie E. Miller '92, IM tutor for Cabot. "Pforzheimer was in the lead and Lowell was in second...
...though, it would be Cabot, buoyed by a strong showing in the IM swim meet, which would take the crown by fewer than 100 points...
Self-deprecating, overstating house pride or shamelessly derivative of popular culture. Wear these to play IM Ultimate Frisbee or to lounge around at your house grill...