alt Hacker NewsDialtone – AOL 3.0 Server
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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!
Still waiting on a Prodigy online emulator, but in the meantime at least somebody recreated MadMaze!
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.
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.
Hugged to death it seems. They should put up a proxy that gives you a busy signal.
Landing page design very much gives off that it was vibe coded by Claude. It has those unique specifics of all Claude designs.
what was AOL exactly i never experienced it but would constantly get these CDs in the mail with Air Warrior
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.
"Zerocool" nice touch :-)
Amazing work! Started playing Civ on the VM and wasted 3 hours lol
Now make a Cosmic Conquest bot for it... ;-)
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