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AOL 4.0 rebuilt by coders who resurrected AIM
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Posted: 18th September 2020 05:04
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So looks like the same people who are rebuilding ICQ and have rebuilt AIM, Yahoo Messanger are now rebuilding AOL 4.0 and they are allowing people to create custom forums aka AOL sites. Think Keyword Gamewiz, ANT, VGN.
http://iwarg.ddns.net/phoenix/index.php?action=main If your interested in taking a trip back in memory lane this might be a good start. If you all are questioning this project they have made the news for bringing back AIM. https://www.papermag.com/aim-phoenix-258155...0as%20a%20hobby. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vbqadb/a...x-resurrect-aim https://www.cnet.com/news/aim-is-back-but-i...t-remember-you/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/06...enix/736383002/ -------------------- His Divine Shadow |
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Posted: 24th September 2020 09:26
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stages of AOL
1. AOL is the hot new thing 2. everyone uses AOL 3. AOL is everywhere and so are its CDs 4. AOL is too damn big 5. various other hot new things are better than AOL 6. AOL loses market share because no one cares about AOL anymore 7. nostalgia for AOL -------------------- Check the "What games are you playing at the moment?" thread for updates on what I've been playing. You can find me on the Fediverse! I use Mastodon, where I am @[email protected] ( https://sakurajima.moe/@glennmagusharvey ) |
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Posted: 13th November 2020 23:41
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Quote (Glenn Magus Harvey @ 24th September 2020 04:26) stages of AOL 1. AOL is the hot new thing 2. everyone uses AOL 3. AOL is everywhere and so are its CDs 4. AOL is too damn big 5. various other hot new things are better than AOL 6. AOL loses market share because no one cares about AOL anymore 7. nostalgia for AOL Pretty much. AOL's decline was not due to its ease of use but rather Crazy Facebook type rules. It used to be very easy to be banned and they used to mass ban customers for things as simple as entering in a chat room. Another funny thing was AOL unlike modern day ISPs would literally take calls from 15 year old forum Moderator Nazi's and AOL would suspend to ban its users because that AOL User violated the 15 Year Olds website rules and talked back to the Moderators. The GGCCC, and GSCCC (Later CMGSCCC, Codetwink) were infamous for doing this. I bring them up because people here know some of the founders of those sites. This all changing once DSL/Cable internet became cheap and easily accessible and faster then a 56k modem. Then the banning stopped and it became almost impossible to quit AOL after everyone started leaving. -------------------- His Divine Shadow |
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