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manawyrm, 06/07/2022 03:45 PM
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| 3 | The "RE-AOL project":https://g.livejournal.com/10829.html has done some fantastic work in reverse-engineering and writing a new server backend for old AOL clients. |
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| 4 | They are providing a TCP server, which will speak the AOL propritary P3 protocol. |
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| 6 | The same P3 protocol was also used over dialup and ISDN lines back in the day. |
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| 7 | @manawyrm offers AOL 3.0 compatible access to RE-AOL in the OCTOI network at 030 1234 3063. |
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| 9 | "Video of a 56k V.90 dialup onto RE-AOL":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9cYW_QuidY |
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| 11 | The RE-AOL project itself is still pretty young and they seem to be missing a website. Most of their development seems to be happening in a Discord channel: |
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| 12 | https://discord.gg/reaol |
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| 14 | h3. AOL access via modem |
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| 16 | The AOL client software has a folder called "ccl" (communication control language?), which contains a number of scripts for different countries and access providers. |
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| 17 | The default "AOLnet provider":https://gist.github.com/Manawyrm/c0d5e29703ec57d3f27571d08aeb5624 requires the following procedure: |
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| 18 | After the modem connect, the remote side sends: "ANSnet\r\nlogin:", to which the AOL client responds with "aol". |
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| 19 | The remote side will then send "connected" and start speaking the P3 protocol (for example by connecting the socket over to re-aol.org). |
