Re: AOL chat server replica in the wild?

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On Thursday 23 January 2025 04:18:39 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
> Anno domini 2025 Thu, 23 Jan 09:49:55 +0300
>
>  Andrew Randrianasulu via tde-users scripsit:
> > https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=taDOa2zIhlo
> >
> > "Open-source instant messaging server that makes classic AIM and ICQ
> > clients work again."
> >
> > in Go ....
> >
> > https://github.com/mk6i/retro-aim-server
>
> LOL ... that's a blast from the past! Anybody want to port it to TDE?
>
> Nik
>

When I was a much younger man (back in the Bible days), I used AIM and ICQ, 
then I found various multiprotocol applications (but forget the names), then 
at last discovered xmpp/jabber, especially with OTR and other security 
features. I don't think I've used anything else in nearly twenty years. And 
nowadays, I don't even know anybody who is using xmpp/jabber; or at least, 
nobody who wants to use it to chat with me. 

However, if anybody really wants to use AIM and ICQ, I wonder why not just try 
one of those multiprotocol apps? 

Nowadays I use psi-plus, which handles my xmpp/jabber needs; although I don't 
currently chat with anybody, I find it comforting to know that my jabber IDs 
are still alive, so that I can use it if I want. 

More to the point of this thread, though, is that psi-plus (and, I imagine, 
other similar apps) has some kind of transports that will allow use of the 
AIM and ICQ (and other?) networks. So for me, at least -- at least, in 
theory -- there is no need to look further. 

I don't suppose anybody out there has heard of psi-plus? Or, if there are 
other such programs, I might be curious. I have already been through Pidgin, 
have used kopete and kopete-trinity, etc., but it's been awhile since I 
explored chat programs. 

Bill

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