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- ICQ? Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time... a long time.by ventana
- The Github page has a link to a Discord chat. Hah, where's the dogfooding?by netsharc
- If you want to use Pidgin with it, check out https://github.com/pidgin/retro-prplby rw_grim
- I remember when I discovered a remote ICQ buffer overflow in high school. I didn't have the skills to gain code execution at the time, but I created an app that could DoS and crash the client of anyone, if I knew their username.by elmer2
- ICQ was my first messaging experience. Good old times!by snthpy
- Neat. At some early startups, we used AIM similar to how Slack is used today.by icedchai
- Hey all, If you're looking for a public server to jump into to start chatting on aim again, please check out https://logon.chat/
It is fully backed by OOS
:)
- I was always more of an MSN Messenger guy. But the Open OSCAR Server project is a fantastic labor of love stewarded by a kind soul.
They put up with (if not were outright amused at) me digging up the weirdest 3rd party clients I could [1] and just kicking them around against the server software to find bugs [2]
[1] https://wiki.cursedsilicon.net/wiki/AIM_Clients
[2] https://github.com/mk6i/open-oscar-server/issues/120