GitHub - mk6i/retro-aim-server: Open-source instant messaging server that makes classic AIM and ICQ clients work again.
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Open-source instant messaging server that makes classic AIM and ICQ clients work again. - mk6i/retro-aim-server

I just heard about RetroAIM. Which is a way to use AIM (AOL Instant Messanger) in the modern day, running your own servers.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•2 days ago

    Wasn’t AIM just using XMPP? (It’s been a while since I looked at these things).

    Still neat. AIM was impressive for the time, I even ran it on Android circa 2009. Frustrating that things like AIM/XMPP got supplanted by SMS, then things like WhatsApp, etc got in when we already had better with XMPP!

    • @[email protected]
      1•1 day ago

      I think many chat clients at that time were XMPP based. We used Lotus Sametime at work, and now I am pretty certain it was XMPP (remembering some UX details and specifics), and it worked incredibly well.

      IIRC Google Hangouts was XMPP, too.

    • Norah (pup/it/she)English
      2•2 days ago

      SMS is older than AIM by four years. Before 3G, and before phones like the iPhone and Android devices, using internet on a mobile was clunky and awful anyway. SMS and XMPP did not really directly compete.