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Dialtone – AOL 3.0 Server

Dialtone – AOL 3.0 Server

rickcarlino

Comments (49)

  • HeckFeck
    Have they open sourced the server? Revival projects should always do this, otherwise they are preserving nothing. A single point of failure means someone else will have to reverse-engineer the protocol and write the server software again in the future. Do it for posterity!
  • vunderba
    Still waiting on a Prodigy online emulator, but in the meantime at least somebody recreated MadMaze!https://www.vintagecomputing.com/madmaze
  • JojoFatsani
    Oh man. I’ve been hoping someone would build this. “The internet we lost” was formative for a whole generation for better or worse.One thing I’d wish for would be for it to use an LLM other than grok though.
  • chuckadams
    Hugged to death it seems. They should put up a proxy that gives you a busy signal.
  • reactordev
    Awwww, my teenage years reborn. I was just down the road from Westwood Village Drive, Tysons Corner in Reston learning to kung fu, math, hack, and talk to girls on AIM. I mastered 2 of those things.Keen to give this a shot as I had stacks and stacks of AOL CDs and floppies in my youth.
  • agentifysh
    what was AOL exactly i never experienced it but would constantly get these CDs in the mail with Air Warrior
  • greekrich92
    I tried the Mac demo on mobile and there wasn't a classic modem sound when connecting to AOL. It would be a nice touch.
  • treebeard901
    The world wide web, information super highway.
  • hajrice
    Landing page design very much gives off that it was vibe coded by Claude. It has those unique specifics of all Claude designs.
  • keyle
    "Zerocool" nice touch :-)
  • sylware
    The new compuserv is google.The new AOL is meta.
  • fcpguru
    oh wow, I was just playing with all the dialtone frequencies in a little ios app:https://i.imgur.com/LGXEU7z.mp4I really miss those sounds. Learned so much about all the different frequencies. No to get too woo-woo but did you know each tone is actually two frequencies a high and low one?The video above shows dialing either LOVE or FEAR. Not sure where this app is going but I had this idea to help catch myself whenever I'm following fear vs love.
  • cramcgrab
    Love the Mac emulator, what do they use for that?
  • pram
    Amazing work! Started playing Civ on the VM and wasted 3 hours lol
  • ErroneousBosh
    Now make a Cosmic Conquest bot for it... ;-)