Tired of Discord? Want to chat with your friends using that perfectly good Windows 98 machine? Well now you can spin up your own AIM server.

Tired of Discord? Want to chat with your friends using that perfectly good Windows 98 machine? Well now you can spin up your own AIM server.

  • rozodru@piefed.worldEnglish
    6·
    8 hours ago

    did this the other day after watching Veronica’s video. had myself and a few buddies on it. man it was a blast. Just hearing that notification sound again was awesome. Spent a good chunk just setting up away msgs and finding old profile icons.

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceEnglish
    3·
    8 hours ago

    You could do that, though unless you have a bunch of Windows 98 PCs you wish to use the official client software on, you may as well host an XMPP server instead. It’s open, actively being developed, and while the majority of people haven’t heard of it, this is also the case with AIM these days (at best, middle-aged people will have memories of using it when they were teenagers, and be surprised that it still sort of exists).