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Revision as of 01:05, 29 January 2013
| AOL | |
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| Status | Online! on January 28, 2013 |
| Archiving status | Researching |
| Archiving type | Unknown |
| IRC channel | #aohell (on hackint) |
This is about archiving the original AOL, not AOL's current website. The AOL system is currently in major disrepair. It is as if they left the machines sitting in the datacenter, and as they die, they do not fix any issues. There is much broken infrastructure.
Protocol
- http://web.archive.org/web/20020205182212/http://www.aol-files.com/fdo91/index.html
- http://web.archive.org/web/20020329213511/http://www.aol-files.com/downloads/docs/index.shtml
- http://www.angelfire.com/sk2/Twisted/Anti-AOL.htm
- http://web.archive.org/web/20011011181824/http://www.aol-files.com/misc/theaolprotocol.wri
- http://sicexcels.tripod.com/rm-vpd.html
URLs
Examples
- aol://4344:1264.a2main.10029531.514525857
- aol://4400:8287
- aol://4344:1264.a2abt.10037404
- aol://4344:117.mtv.591130
- aol://4344:226.llll.2755674.520114429 (Access code: 3675)
Sources
- http://web.archive.org/web/20060207004722/http://daol.aol.com/aolatoz
- http://aolhostages.tripod.com/oldused-KWs.txt
- http://www.oocities.org/sunsetstrip/club/5468/secretz.txt
- http://koin.org/files/aol.aim/aol/fdo/tools/software%20library%20list%20bmb_libs.xls
Structure
<balrog_> yes, but aol://4344:nnnn doesn't work without the extra
[19:52] <balrog_> aol://4344:1264.a2main.10029531 also works
<balrog_> simply aol://4344:1264.a2main does not work.
[20:17] <DrainLbry> so to summarize we've got aol://4400:ID (from
spreadsheet), for file libraries, and
aol://4344:uniqueidentifier for interactive content
[20:18] <balrog_> aol://4344:uniqueidentifier:ID
<balrog_> as per
http://web.archive.org/web/20060207004722/http://daol.aol.com/aolatoz
keywords used to be aol://1722:keyword
<balrog_> but that's no longer working
Software
- http://koin.org/files/aol.aim/aol/mAOL/
- http://web.archive.org/web/20010713011523/http://www.aol-files.com/downloads/tools/win/dbview/index.html
- http://web.archive.org/web/20010128152400/http://www.aol-files.com/downloads/tools/mac.html
- http://www.mattmazur.com/archive/aol-files/downloads/tools/win/star/
- http://www.mattmazur.com/archive/aol-files/index.html
- http://www.ppcmla.com/downloads/
Plans
wget-aol
Modify wget to support the AOL protocol. Ambitious, but it would let us create warc files, which will save us the trouble of figuring out how to organize everything on disk. Warc files make it much easier to create a server than can pretend to be the AOL server, or that can translate into http to allow anyone with a web browser to see what AOL was like.
script the client
Drive the real AOL client, perhaps with debugging tools installed, in order to capture both the FDO sources and screenshots of the rendering. Probably more fragile, but we wouldn't have to understand the actual protocol.