Shantu left the following comment regarding signing up for an AIM account:

HOW TO MAKE A FREE AOL EMAIL B’COZ I DON’T HAVE SO MUCH INFORMATION TO FILL IN THEIR SIGN-IN FORM?shantanu - 18 February ‘05 - 09:06

First of all, shantanu, usually located next to the A key is the “caps lock” please hit that. It’s considered yelling on the web when you type in ALL CAPS, and most certainly some will interpret this as being antisocial. Second, I’ve prepared a screenshot of the AIM new registration area at the top of this post with red numbers to explain each item required to register a new account:

1. Enter in a unique name between 3 and 16 letters and numbers, and it must begin with a letter (a-z)
2. This is your password, so be sure that it’s a secure one. Anybody who has this can get into your email. It must between 4 and 16 letters and numbers. I would recommend using at least 8 characters and mixing up the CaSe of the password as well
3. Re-type the password you just put in #2, for confirmation purposes
4. An existing email address you can be contacted at. If you have an ISP then you should have an email address that comes with that. If you have a web hosting account then you should have an email address that comes with that.
5. An optional display name that can be displayed when you sign in.
6. Enter the date you were born.
7. A CAPTCHA validation image. You just type whatever is shown in the picture. In this case the code would be “76J8X”, but this code changes with each page refresh. This is done to help insure that human beings and not bots are sent to register accounts.

After filling that info out, just hit submit and you should be ready to go, Shantanu.

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