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		mindcrime on May 24, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ICQ will stop working from June 26 I have to admit, the thought has crossed my mind that it would be kinda cool to build a messaging server with support for ICQ protocol, MSN's protocol, OSCAR (AIM), Yahoo's protocol, etc. Maybe throw in XMPP too. And in reading up on OSCAR[1] just now, I only just found out that ICQ did use OCSAR as well (at least according to Wikipedia). I never knew that. I had always thought OSCAR was only used by AIM. Live and learn... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSCAR_protocol

lproven on May 24, 2024 [–]

A team has reverse engineered MSN and launched their own MSN IM server:

https://escargot.chat/

mindcrime on May 24, 2024 | [–]

Righteous!

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