said Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users: | Anno domini 2025 Thu, 23 Jan 09:49:55 +0300 | | Andrew Randrianasulu via tde-users scripsit: | > https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=taDOa2zIhlo | > | > "Open-source instant messaging server that makes classic AIM and ICQ | > clients work again." | > | > in Go .... | > | > https://github.com/mk6i/retro-aim-server | | LOL ... that's a blast from the past! Anybody want to port it to TDE?

Problem is, if anybody does that then we'll each get a 3 1/2-inch floppy in the mail every few days.

On Thursday 23 January 2025 04:18:39 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:

Anno domini 2025 Thu, 23 Jan 09:49:55 +0300

Andrew Randrianasulu via tde-users scripsit:

...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=taDOa2zIhlo

"Open-source instant messaging server that makes classic AIM and ICQ clients work again."

in Go ....

https://github.com/mk6i/retro-aim-server

LOL ... that's a blast from the past! Anybody want to port it to TDE?

Nik

When I was a much younger man (back in the Bible days), I used AIM and ICQ, then I found various multiprotocol applications (but forget the names), then at last discovered xmpp/jabber, especially with OTR and other security features. I don't think I've used anything else in nearly twenty years. And nowadays, I don't even know anybody who is using xmpp/jabber; or at least, nobody who wants to use it to chat with me.

However, if anybody really wants to use AIM and ICQ, I wonder why not just try one of those multiprotocol apps?

Nowadays I use psi-plus, which handles my xmpp/jabber needs; although I don't currently chat with anybody, I find it comforting to know that my jabber IDs are still alive, so that I can use it if I want.

More to the point of this thread, though, is that psi-plus (and, I imagine, other similar apps) has some kind of transports that will allow use of the AIM and ICQ (and other?) networks. So for me, at least -- at least, in theory -- there is no need to look further.

I don't suppose anybody out there has heard of psi-plus? Or, if there are other such programs, I might be curious. I have already been through Pidgin, have used kopete and kopete-trinity, etc., but it's been awhile since I explored chat programs.

Bill