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Dialtone – AOL 3.0 Server

112 points by rickcarlino

by HeckFeck

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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!

by vunderba

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Still waiting on a Prodigy online emulator, but in the meantime at least somebody recreated MadMaze!
https://www.vintagecomputing.com/madmaze

by JojoFatsani

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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.

by chuckadams

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Hugged to death it seems. They should put up a proxy that gives you a busy signal.

by reactordev

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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.

by agentifysh

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what was AOL exactly i never experienced it but would constantly get these CDs in the mail with Air Warrior

by greekrich92

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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.

by treebeard901

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The world wide web, information super highway.

by hajrice

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Landing page design very much gives off that it was vibe coded by Claude. It has those unique specifics of all Claude designs.

by keyle

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"Zerocool" nice touch :-)

by sylware

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The new compuserv is google.
The new AOL is meta.

by fcpguru

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oh wow, I was just playing with all the dialtone frequencies in a little ios app:
https://i.imgur.com/LGXEU7z.mp4
I 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.

by cramcgrab

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Love the Mac emulator, what do they use for that?

by pram

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Amazing work! Started playing Civ on the VM and wasted 3 hours lol

by ErroneousBosh

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Now make a Cosmic Conquest bot for it... ;-)