NINA - AOL Desktop and AIM revival

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NINA's Website
This is not a new project and I have been following them for a long time now. They collaborate with https://escargot.chat/, a MSN Messenger revival and show a lot of good progress in their private donator's only channel in their Discord. For anyone curious about the protocols of AIM, MSN or Yahoo Messenger their wiki is massive and filled with information.
https://wiki.nina.chat/wiki/Main_Page

They're also now in private alpha. AIM from the earliest versions up to 5.9 work. To get access, simply donate here https://nina.chat/donate. ICQ and AOL Desktop are next on the roadmap but this is a huge win. The developers have lots of exciting stuff coming and I hope it could peek the interest of some of you folks here.

Screenshot is just your standard XP SP3, not a Beta build, i just like watercolor lol. In theory, any operating system capable on running AIM should work. I helped them get Kopete's AIM plugin working and Pidgin 2.14.2's before they had removed it, which are both good applications for Linux, and I even saw someone use it on AIM 1.6 with Windows 3.11 for Workgroups.

Edited August 4, 2023 by bob_smith

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NINA now has support for ICQ up to version 6 and the iOS and Android AIM apps, allowing you to chat in a retro fashion on your smartphone. Their launch of AOL Desktop is soon. They're about $260 behind on hosting due to some issues, so if you'd like to chip in $5 for beta access, you won't regret it.. The AIM Express Adobe Flash client along with it's WebAPI protocol allowing HTML applications to interface with NINA is also now available for donators. Quite retro, but works very well. Attached in the screenshot is the AIM iOS app, ICQ 6 and AIM Express.

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AOL Desktop 5.0, now on NINA. Not all keywords are implemented yet, but the developers have archived most of AOL's keywords and pages from it's years online.

If anyone here has an old PC that may have had AOL Desktop installed and used during it's time of operation, it would assist NINA's efforts greatly by sharing your main.idx, located in the "idb" directory of AOL's install folder.