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

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.

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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.

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