That's a nice looking homer, did you make it yourself? I wasn't around when AOL Instant Messenger was popular, I actually had to look up what America Online was haha, what was it like compared to more modern IMs such as Skype?
It was available in the program AOL (america online). Back then before AOL instant messenger, it was an internet service provider, as people used their software to connect online through dialup, chatrooms were plenty, people wrote punters (used HTML code to freeze, lag, crash the AOL client). Good days, but it was too limiting, and I started to learn about the internet after they got rid of me and I got a real ISP - internet service provider
I'm so old I remember using ICQ, which I believe AOL bought and turned into AOL instant messenger. ICQ was like magic back then.