Cool project, kudos to the devs, even though (as other comments say) it seems rather pointless. Some things better stay in the past while you enjoy the nostalgia once in a honeymoon.
lukaslalinsky · 29m ago
What I truly miss is the short era, when it looked like Jabber is going to win the chat world. At least here in Europe, ICQ was on its way out. Both Google and Facebook had interoperable XMPP servers. It ended very shortly after that, but it was good for the year or two while it lasted.
benguild · 2h ago
the sad thing about this is what made it magical before was the people that were on there, and it’s impossible to get that back now!
thedanbob · 1h ago
Yup, they can probably rebuild ICQ the way it was when I was 16 but they can't make me 16 again.
endre · 2h ago
same with IRC except IRC never went down.
anthk · 7m ago
Ditto with Usenet albeit there's always cool people there.
Bluestein · 1h ago
... and never will :)
Spaceships bearing our genes will still beam IRC from somewhere down deep in engineering.-
Here you would try to reuse your old computer (usually 15-20 years old) for common tasks done in 2025. The web it's a no-no minus a few services but you would surprised. Hint: yt-dlp, fake User Agents (PSP, Opera Mini...) and so on.
Patching the old clients it's often usually easy, even more in case of AMSN (TCL). It's a matter of changing the URL of the service and maybe some slight API change.
Escargot covers the MSN services, which is similar to NINA:
Spaceships bearing our genes will still beam IRC from somewhere down deep in engineering.-
https://occ.deadnet.se
Here you would try to reuse your old computer (usually 15-20 years old) for common tasks done in 2025. The web it's a no-no minus a few services but you would surprised. Hint: yt-dlp, fake User Agents (PSP, Opera Mini...) and so on.
Patching the old clients it's often usually easy, even more in case of AMSN (TCL). It's a matter of changing the URL of the service and maybe some slight API change.
Escargot covers the MSN services, which is similar to NINA:
https://escargot.chat/