the r-space
3 - You've Got Mail! (again)
29/01/2025 at 12:36
So you know how I said I'd give my AIM screen name in the last blog post? I bet you're wondering 'I thought AIM shut down years ago!', and in any case you'd be right. But in the spirit of Pretendo and many other server revival projects, AOL Instant Messenger is back!
It's called nina.chat and I signed up to it a few days ago. I wasn't, well... alive while AIM was in its heyday but I've always wanted to relive that form of Instant Messenger type thing as an alternative to Discord occasionally. Setup was really simple as well, so I'd recommend going to their website and giving it a go. I don't know whether AIM 5.9 still works on newer versions of Windows (It works on my ThinkPad T42 running Windows XP) but there's probably a workaround to get it running.
I'll put some screenshots here as an idea of what it looks like (if you've never seen it before)
as you can see i have no buddies as of now... :(
Anyhow, my AIM screen name is RSpaced so if you like add me to your Buddy list!
(I'm thinking of making more general blog posts and adding additional features to the r-space, more coming soon! :D)
or discord, which is 'rspace' but give AIM a try lol, you'll have fun